virtio-mem: add memory via add_memory_driver_managed()
Virtio-mem managed memory is always detected and added by the virtio-mem driver, never using something like the firmware-provided memory map. This is the case after an ordinary system reboot, and has to be guaranteed after kexec. Especially, virtio-mem added memory resources can contain inaccessible parts ("unblocked memory blocks"), blindly forwarding them to a kexec kernel is dangerous, as unplugged memory will get accessed (esp. written). Let's use the new way of adding special driver-managed memory introduced in commit 7b7b2721 ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_memory_driver_managed()"). This will result in no entries in /sys/firmware/memmap ("raw firmware- provided memory map"), the memory resource will be flagged IORESOURCE_MEM_DRIVER_MANAGED (esp., kexec_file_load() will not place kexec images on this memory), and it is exposed as "System RAM (virtio_mem)" in /proc/iomem, so esp. kexec-tools can properly handle it. Example /proc/iomem before this change: [...] 140000000-333ffffff : virtio0 140000000-147ffffff : System RAM 334000000-533ffffff : virtio1 338000000-33fffffff : System RAM 340000000-347ffffff : System RAM 348000000-34fffffff : System RAM [...] Example /proc/iomem after this change: [...] 140000000-333ffffff : virtio0 140000000-147ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 334000000-533ffffff : virtio1 338000000-33fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 340000000-347ffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) 348000000-34fffffff : System RAM (virtio_mem) [...] Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: teawater <teawaterz@linux.alibaba.com> Fixes: 5f1f79bb ("virtio-mem: Paravirtualized memory hotplug") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200611093518.5737-1-david@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
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