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    arm/efi: EFI soft reservation to memblock · 16993c0f
    Dan Williams authored
    UEFI 2.8 defines an EFI_MEMORY_SP attribute bit to augment the
    interpretation of the EFI Memory Types as "reserved for a specific
    purpose".
    
    The proposed Linux behavior for specific purpose memory is that it is
    reserved for direct-access (device-dax) by default and not available for
    any kernel usage, not even as an OOM fallback.  Later, through udev
    scripts or another init mechanism, these device-dax claimed ranges can
    be reconfigured and hot-added to the available System-RAM with a unique
    node identifier. This device-dax management scheme implements "soft" in
    the "soft reserved" designation by allowing some or all of the
    reservation to be recovered as typical memory. This policy can be
    disabled at compile-time with CONFIG_EFI_SOFT_RESERVE=n, or runtime with
    efi=nosoftreserve.
    
    For this patch, update the ARM paths that consider
    EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY to optionally take the EFI_MEMORY_SP attribute
    into account as a reservation indicator. Publish the soft reservation as
    IORES_DESC_SOFT_RESERVED memory, similar to x86.
    
    (Based on an original patch by Ard)
    Reviewed-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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