kho: increase metadata bitmap size to PAGE_SIZE
authorPasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:08:51 +0000 (20:08 -0400)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:19:41 +0000 (21:19 -0800)
commita2fff99f92dae9c0eaf0d75de3def70ec68dad92
tree1d85007812b00ede2bd12e9f2e8b8a322b116f55
parente38f65d317df1fd2dcafe614d9c537475ecf9992
kho: increase metadata bitmap size to PAGE_SIZE

KHO memory preservation metadata is preserved in 512 byte chunks which
requires their allocation from slab allocator.  Slabs are not safe to be
used with KHO because of kfence, and because partial slabs may lead leaks
to the next kernel.  Change the size to be PAGE_SIZE.

The kfence specifically may cause memory corruption, where it randomly
provides slab objects that can be within the scratch area.  The reason for
that is that kfence allocates its objects prior to KHO scratch is marked
as CMA region.

While this change could potentially increase metadata overhead on systems
with sparsely preserved memory, this is being mitigated by ongoing work to
reduce sparseness during preservation via 1G guest pages.  Furthermore,
this change aligns with future work on a stateless KHO, which will also
use page-sized bitmaps for its radix tree metadata.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251021000852.2924827-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Fixes: fc33e4b44b27 ("kexec: enable KHO support for memory preservation")
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kexec_handover.c