From: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>

On nios2, with CONFIG_FLATMEM set, the kernel relies on
memblock_get_current_limit() to determine the limits of mem_map, in
particular for max_low_pfn.
Unfortunately, memblock.current_limit is only default initialized to
MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE at this point of the bootup, potentially leading
to situations where max_low_pfn can erroneously exceed the value of
max_pfn and, thus, the valid range of available DRAM.

This can in turn cause kernel-level paging failures, e.g.:

[   76.900000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20303000
[   76.900000] ea = c0080890, ra = c000462c, cause = 14
[   76.900000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops
[   76.900000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops ]---

This patch fixes this by pre-calculating memblock.current_limit
based on the upper limits of the available memory ranges via
adjust_lowmem_bounds, a simplified version of the equivalent
implementation within the arm architecture.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Oetken <andreas.oetken@siemens-energy.com>
---
This patch was tested internally on 5.10.x stable for some time now and
applies and boots cleanly on next-20250815, as well.
---
 arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
index 2a40150142c3..f43f01c4ab93 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
@@ -142,6 +142,20 @@ static void __init find_limits(unsigned long *min, unsigned long *max_low,
 	*max_high = PFN_DOWN(memblock_end_of_DRAM());
 }
 
+static void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)
+{
+	phys_addr_t block_start, block_end;
+	u64 i;
+	phys_addr_t memblock_limit = 0;
+
+	for_each_mem_range(i, &block_start, &block_end) {
+		if (block_end > memblock_limit)
+			memblock_limit = block_end;
+	}
+
+	memblock_set_current_limit(memblock_limit);
+}
+
 void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 {
 	console_verbose();
@@ -157,6 +171,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
 	/* Keep a copy of command line */
 	*cmdline_p = boot_command_line;
 
+	adjust_lowmem_bounds();
 	find_limits(&min_low_pfn, &max_low_pfn, &max_pfn);
 
 	memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(_stext), _end - _stext);

---
base-commit: 1357b2649c026b51353c84ddd32bc963e8999603
change-id: 20250818-nios2-adjust-lowmem-bounds-5d2d98af0fa8

Best regards,
-- 
Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>

On 8/21/25 05:37, Simon Schuster via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
> 
> On nios2, with CONFIG_FLATMEM set, the kernel relies on
> memblock_get_current_limit() to determine the limits of mem_map, in
> particular for max_low_pfn.
> Unfortunately, memblock.current_limit is only default initialized to
> MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_ANYWHERE at this point of the bootup, potentially leading
> to situations where max_low_pfn can erroneously exceed the value of
> max_pfn and, thus, the valid range of available DRAM.
> 
> This can in turn cause kernel-level paging failures, e.g.:
> 
> [   76.900000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20303000
> [   76.900000] ea = c0080890, ra = c000462c, cause = 14
> [   76.900000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops
> [   76.900000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops ]---
> 
> This patch fixes this by pre-calculating memblock.current_limit
> based on the upper limits of the available memory ranges via
> adjust_lowmem_bounds, a simplified version of the equivalent
> implementation within the arm architecture.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Oetken <andreas.oetken@siemens-energy.com>
> ---
> This patch was tested internally on 5.10.x stable for some time now and
> applies and boots cleanly on next-20250815, as well.
> ---
>   arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> index 2a40150142c3..f43f01c4ab93 100644
> --- a/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -142,6 +142,20 @@ static void __init find_limits(unsigned long *min, unsigned long *max_low,
>   	*max_high = PFN_DOWN(memblock_end_of_DRAM());
>   }
>   
> +static void __init adjust_lowmem_bounds(void)
> +{
> +	phys_addr_t block_start, block_end;
> +	u64 i;
> +	phys_addr_t memblock_limit = 0;
> +
> +	for_each_mem_range(i, &block_start, &block_end) {
> +		if (block_end > memblock_limit)
> +			memblock_limit = block_end;
> +	}
> +
> +	memblock_set_current_limit(memblock_limit);
> +}
> +
>   void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>   {
>   	console_verbose();
> @@ -157,6 +171,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
>   	/* Keep a copy of command line */
>   	*cmdline_p = boot_command_line;
>   
> +	adjust_lowmem_bounds();
>   	find_limits(&min_low_pfn, &max_low_pfn, &max_pfn);
>   
>   	memblock_reserve(__pa_symbol(_stext), _end - _stext);
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 1357b2649c026b51353c84ddd32bc963e8999603
> change-id: 20250818-nios2-adjust-lowmem-bounds-5d2d98af0fa8
> 
> Best regards,


Applied! Queued for v6.18.

Thanks,
Dinh