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From: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:24:15 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] mm: When adding a region, merge with region after as well as
 before

On x86_64-efi (at least) regions seem to be added from top down. The mm
code will merge a new region with an existing region that comes
immediately before the new region. This allows larger allocations to be
satisfied that would otherwise be the case.

On powerpc-ieee1275, however, regions are added from bottom up. So if
we add 3x 32MB regions, we can still only satisfy a 32MB allocation,
rather than the 96MB allocation we might otherwise be able to satisfy.

  * Define 'post_size' as being bytes lost to the end of an allocation
    due to being given weird sizes from firmware that are not multiples
    of GRUB_MM_ALIGN.

  * Allow merging of regions immediately _after_ existing regions, not
    just before. As with the other approach, we create an allocated
    block to represent the new space and the pass it to grub_free() to
    get the metadata right.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
(cherry picked from commit 052e6068be622ff53f1238b449c300dbd0a8abcd)
---
 grub-core/kern/mm.c       | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 include/grub/mm_private.h |   9 ++++
 2 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/mm.c b/grub-core/kern/mm.c
index 1cbf98c7ab..7be33e23bf 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/mm.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/mm.c
@@ -130,53 +130,88 @@ grub_mm_init_region (void *addr, grub_size_t size)
 
   /* Attempt to merge this region with every existing region */
   for (p = &grub_mm_base, q = *p; q; p = &(q->next), q = *p)
-    /*
-     * Is the new region immediately below an existing region? That
-     * is, is the address of the memory we're adding now (addr) + size
-     * of the memory we're adding (size) + the bytes we couldn't use
-     * at the start of the region we're considering (q->pre_size)
-     * equal to the address of q? In other words, does the memory
-     * looks like this?
-     *
-     * addr                          q
-     *   |----size-----|-q->pre_size-|<q region>|
-     */
-    if ((grub_uint8_t *) addr + size + q->pre_size == (grub_uint8_t *) q)
-      {
-	/*
-	 * Yes, we can merge the memory starting at addr into the
-	 * existing region from below. Align up addr to GRUB_MM_ALIGN
-	 * so that our new region has proper alignment.
-	 */
-	r = (grub_mm_region_t) ALIGN_UP ((grub_addr_t) addr, GRUB_MM_ALIGN);
-	/* Copy the region data across */
-	*r = *q;
-	/* Consider all the new size as pre-size */
-	r->pre_size += size;
+    {
+      /*
+       * Is the new region immediately below an existing region? That
+       * is, is the address of the memory we're adding now (addr) + size
+       * of the memory we're adding (size) + the bytes we couldn't use
+       * at the start of the region we're considering (q->pre_size)
+       * equal to the address of q? In other words, does the memory
+       * looks like this?
+       *
+       * addr                          q
+       *   |----size-----|-q->pre_size-|<q region>|
+       */
+      if ((grub_uint8_t *) addr + size + q->pre_size == (grub_uint8_t *) q)
+        {
+          /*
+           * Yes, we can merge the memory starting at addr into the
+           * existing region from below. Align up addr to GRUB_MM_ALIGN
+           * so that our new region has proper alignment.
+           */
+          r = (grub_mm_region_t) ALIGN_UP ((grub_addr_t) addr, GRUB_MM_ALIGN);
+          /* Copy the region data across */
+          *r = *q;
+          /* Consider all the new size as pre-size */
+          r->pre_size += size;
 
-	/*
-	 * If we have enough pre-size to create a block, create a
-	 * block with it. Mark it as allocated and pass it to
-	 * grub_free (), which will sort out getting it into the free
-	 * list.
-	 */
-	if (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2)
-	  {
-	    h = (grub_mm_header_t) (r + 1);
-	    /* block size is pre-size converted to cells */
-	    h->size = (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2);
-	    h->magic = GRUB_MM_ALLOC_MAGIC;
-	    /* region size grows by block size converted back to bytes */
-	    r->size += h->size << GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2;
-	    /* adjust pre_size to be accurate */
-	    r->pre_size &= (GRUB_MM_ALIGN - 1);
-	    *p = r;
-	    grub_free (h + 1);
-	  }
-	/* Replace the old region with the new region */
-	*p = r;
-	return;
-      }
+          /*
+           * If we have enough pre-size to create a block, create a
+           * block with it. Mark it as allocated and pass it to
+           * grub_free (), which will sort out getting it into the free
+           * list.
+           */
+          if (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2)
+            {
+              h = (grub_mm_header_t) (r + 1);
+              /* block size is pre-size converted to cells */
+              h->size = (r->pre_size >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2);
+              h->magic = GRUB_MM_ALLOC_MAGIC;
+              /* region size grows by block size converted back to bytes */
+              r->size += h->size << GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2;
+              /* adjust pre_size to be accurate */
+              r->pre_size &= (GRUB_MM_ALIGN - 1);
+              *p = r;
+              grub_free (h + 1);
+            }
+          /* Replace the old region with the new region */
+          *p = r;
+          return;
+        }
+
+      /*
+       * Is the new region immediately above an existing region? That
+       * is:
+       *   q                       addr
+       *   |<q region>|-q->post_size-|----size-----|
+       */
+      if ((grub_uint8_t *) q + sizeof (*q) + q->size + q->post_size ==
+	  (grub_uint8_t *) addr)
+	{
+	  /*
+	   * Yes! Follow a similar pattern to above, but simpler.
+	   * Our header starts at address - post_size, which should align us
+	   * to a cell boundary.
+	   *
+	   * Cast to (void *) first to avoid the following build error:
+	   *   kern/mm.c: In function ‘grub_mm_init_region’:
+	   *   kern/mm.c:211:15: error: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Werror=cast-align]
+	   *     211 |           h = (grub_mm_header_t) ((grub_uint8_t *) addr - q->post_size);
+	   *         |               ^
+	   * It is safe to do that because proper alignment is enforced in grub_mm_size_sanity_check().
+	   */
+	  h = (grub_mm_header_t)(void *) ((grub_uint8_t *) addr - q->post_size);
+	  /* our size is the allocated size plus post_size, in cells */
+	  h->size = (size + q->post_size) >> GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2;
+	  h->magic = GRUB_MM_ALLOC_MAGIC;
+	  /* region size grows by block size converted back to bytes */
+	  q->size += h->size << GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2;
+	  /* adjust new post_size to be accurate */
+	  q->post_size = (q->post_size + size) & (GRUB_MM_ALIGN - 1);
+	  grub_free (h + 1);
+	  return;
+	}
+    }
 
   /* Allocate a region from the head.  */
   r = (grub_mm_region_t) ALIGN_UP ((grub_addr_t) addr, GRUB_MM_ALIGN);
@@ -195,6 +230,7 @@ grub_mm_init_region (void *addr, grub_size_t size)
   r->first = h;
   r->pre_size = (grub_addr_t) r - (grub_addr_t) addr;
   r->size = (h->size << GRUB_MM_ALIGN_LOG2);
+  r->post_size = size - r->size;
 
   /* Find where to insert this region. Put a smaller one before bigger ones,
      to prevent fragmentation.  */
diff --git a/include/grub/mm_private.h b/include/grub/mm_private.h
index a688b92a83..96c2d816be 100644
--- a/include/grub/mm_private.h
+++ b/include/grub/mm_private.h
@@ -81,8 +81,17 @@ typedef struct grub_mm_region
    */
   grub_size_t pre_size;
 
+  /*
+   * Likewise, the post-size is the number of bytes we wasted at the end
+   * of the allocation because it wasn't a multiple of GRUB_MM_ALIGN
+   */
+  grub_size_t post_size;
+
   /* How many bytes are in this region? (free and allocated) */
   grub_size_t size;
+
+  /* pad to a multiple of cell size */
+  char padding[3 * GRUB_CPU_SIZEOF_VOID_P];
 }
 *grub_mm_region_t;