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| author | Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> | 2026-02-25 08:55:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> | 2026-03-12 07:09:30 -0400 |
| commit | 7dcf59422a3b0d20ddda844f856b4a1e0608a326 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f74feeed03c470c3805c9740501c9c91108a301 /drivers/firmware | |
| parent | efe0b0b32d5cc9fd3b8a04e44d6110ce5466901d (diff) | |
x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
commit a4b0bf6a40f3c107c67a24fbc614510ef5719980 upstream.
efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE
and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late().
There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for
memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with
memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area().
More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y
efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the
memory map is complete.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of
RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM.
If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is
still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because
memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips
uninitialized pages.
Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because
__free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might
end up in uninitialized part of the memory map.
Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic
because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates
efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in
boot when there is concurrency.
More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services
memory.
Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services()
collects ranges that should be freed into an array then
efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ec2aaef14783869b3be6e3c253b2dcbf67dbc12a.camel@kernel.crashing.org
Fixes: 916f676f8dc0 ("x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firmware')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c index aedbbd627706..741674a0a70c 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/mokvar-table.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct kobject *mokvar_kobj; * as an alternative to ordinary EFI variables, due to platform-dependent * limitations. The memory occupied by this table is marked as reserved. * - * This routine must be called before efi_free_boot_services() in order + * This routine must be called before efi_unmap_boot_services() in order * to guarantee that it can mark the table as reserved. * * Implicit inputs: |