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    x86/setup: Always reserve the first 1M of RAM · f1d4d47c
    Mike Rapoport authored
    There are BIOSes that are known to corrupt the memory under 1M, or more
    precisely under 640K because the memory above 640K is anyway reserved
    for the EGA/VGA frame buffer and BIOS.
    
    To prevent usage of the memory that will be potentially clobbered by the
    kernel, the beginning of the memory is always reserved. The exact size
    of the reserved area is determined by CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW build time
    and the "reservelow=" command line option. The reserved range may be
    from 4K to 640K with the default of 64K. There are also configurations
    that reserve the entire 1M range, like machines with SandyBridge graphic
    devices or systems that enable crash kernel.
    
    In addition to the potentially clobbered memory, EBDA of unknown size may
    be as low as 128K and the memory above that EBDA start is also reserved
    early.
    
    It would have been possible to reserve the entire range under 1M unless for
    the real mode trampoline that must reside in that area.
    
    To accommodate placement of the real mode trampoline and keep the memory
    safe from being clobbered by BIOS, reserve the first 64K of RAM before
    memory allocations are possible and then, after the real mode trampoline
    is allocated, reserve the entire range from 0 to 1M.
    
    Update trim_snb_memory() and reserve_real_mode() to avoid redundant
    reservations of the same memory range.
    
    Also make sure the memory under 1M is not getting freed by
    efi_free_boot_services().
    
     [ bp: Massage commit message and comments. ]
    
    Fixes: a799c2bd ("x86/setup: Consolidate early memory reservations")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Tested-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213177
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601075354.5149-2-rppt@kernel.org
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