On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 02:46:15PM +0000, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> KHO uses struct pages for the preserved memory early in boot, however,
> with deferred struct page initialization, only a small portion of
> memory has properly initialized struct pages.
>
> This problem was detected where vmemmap is poisoned, and illegal flag
> combinations are detected.
>
> Don't allow them to be enabled together, and later we will have to
> teach KHO to work properly with deferred struct page init kernel
> feature.
>
> Fixes: 990a950fe8fd ("kexec: add config option for KHO")
>
> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
> ---
> kernel/Kconfig.kexec | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
> index 2ee603a98813..1224dd937df0 100644
> --- a/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
> +++ b/kernel/Kconfig.kexec
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ config KEXEC_JUMP
> config KEXEC_HANDOVER
> bool "kexec handover"
> depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_HANDOVER && ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC_FILE
> + depends on !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
> select MEMBLOCK_KHO_SCRATCH
> select KEXEC_FILE
> select DEBUG_FS
> --
> 2.50.0.727.gbf7dc18ff4-goog
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.