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    powerpc/pseries: check DRCONF_MEM_RESERVED in lmb_is_removable() · 2ad216b4
    Daniel Henrique Barboza authored
    DRCONF_MEM_RESERVED is a flag that represents the "Reserved Memory"
    status in LOPAR v2.10, section 4.2.8. If a LMB is marked as reserved,
    quoting LOPAR, "is not to be used or altered by the base OS". This flag
    is read only in the kernel, being set by the firmware/hypervisor in the
    DT. As an example, QEMU will set this flag in hw/ppc/spapr.c,
    spapr_dt_dynamic_memory().
    
    lmb_is_removable() does not check for DRCONF_MEM_RESERVED. This function
    is used in dlpar_remove_lmb() as a guard before the removal logic. Since
    it is failing to check for !RESERVED, dlpar_remove_lmb() will fail in a
    later stage instead of failing in the validation when receiving a
    reserved LMB as input.
    
    lmb_is_removable() is also used in dlpar_memory_remove_by_count() to
    evaluate if we have enough LMBs to complete the request. The missing
    !RESERVED check in this case is causing dlpar_memory_remove_by_count()
    to miscalculate the number of elegible LMBs for the removal, and can
    make it error out later on instead of failing in the validation with the
    'not enough LMBs to satisfy request' message.
    
    Making a DRCONF_MEM_RESERVED check in lmb_is_removable() fixes all these
    issues.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512202809.95363-3-danielhb413@gmail.com
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