arm64: allow kernel Image to be loaded anywhere in physical memory

This relaxes the kernel Image placement requirements, so that it
may be placed at any 2 MB aligned offset in physical memory.

This is accomplished by ignoring PHYS_OFFSET when installing
memblocks, and accounting for the apparent virtual offset of
the kernel Image. As a result, virtual address references
below PAGE_OFFSET are correctly mapped onto physical references
into the kernel Image regardless of where it sits in memory.

Special care needs to be taken for dealing with memory limits passed
via mem=, since the generic implementation clips memory top down, which
may clip the kernel image itself if it is loaded high up in memory. To
deal with this case, we simply add back the memory covering the kernel
image, which may result in more memory to be retained than was passed
as a mem= parameter.

Since mem= should not be considered a production feature, a panic notifier
handler is installed that dumps the memory limit at panic time if one was
set.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kernel-pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kernel-pgtable.h
index a459714ee29e..5c6375d8528b 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kernel-pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kernel-pgtable.h
@@ -79,5 +79,17 @@
 #define SWAPPER_MM_MMUFLAGS	(PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL) | SWAPPER_PTE_FLAGS)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * To make optimal use of block mappings when laying out the linear
+ * mapping, round down the base of physical memory to a size that can
+ * be mapped efficiently, i.e., either PUD_SIZE (4k granule) or PMD_SIZE
+ * (64k granule), or a multiple that can be mapped using contiguous bits
+ * in the page tables: 32 * PMD_SIZE (16k granule)
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES
+#define ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN	SZ_512M
+#else
+#define ARM64_MEMSTART_ALIGN	SZ_1G
+#endif
 
 #endif	/* __ASM_KERNEL_PGTABLE_H */