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    x86/efistub: Avoid placing the kernel below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR · 2f77465b
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    The EFI stub's kernel placement logic randomizes the physical placement
    of the kernel by taking all available memory into account, and picking a
    region at random, based on a random seed.
    
    When KASLR is disabled, this seed is set to 0x0, and this results in the
    lowest available region of memory to be selected for loading the kernel,
    even if this is below LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR. Some of this memory is
    typically reserved for the GFP_DMA region, to accommodate masters that
    can only access the first 16 MiB of system memory.
    
    Even if such devices are rare these days, we may still end up with a
    warning in the kernel log, as reported by Tom:
    
     swapper/0: page allocation failure: order:10, mode:0xcc1(GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0
    
    Fix this by tweaking the random allocation logic to accept a low bound
    on the placement, and set it to LOAD_PHYSICAL_ADDR.
    
    Fixes: a1b87d54 ("x86/efistub: Avoid legacy decompressor when doing EFI boot")
    Reported-by: default avatarTom Englund <tomenglund26@gmail.com>
    Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218404Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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