[PATCH v4 2/2] kho: Introduce preserve/restore APIs for high-order pages

Pranjal Shrivastava <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 11:39:43 +0000
Newsgroups org.infradead.lists.kexec,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kvack.linux-mm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The current KHO page preservation APIs (e.g. kho_preserve_pages) assume
that multi-page blocks are split into independent 4KB pages during
restoration. This is incompatible with high-order non-compound pages,
such as DMA buffers, which must be restored with tail pages having a
zero reference count.

Introduce explicit preserve and restore APIs for high-order pages,
which preserve and restore a high-order page block as a single unit,
applying a refcount of 1 to the head page while leaving tail pages at 0.
Rename the existing internal helper to __kho_restore_page() and
consolidate the common restoration code into it.

Signed-off-by: Pranjal Shrivastava <[email protected]>
---
 include/linux/kexec_handover.h     | 10 +++
 kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/kexec_handover.h b/include/linux/kexec_handover.h
index 8968c56d2d73..6e2c75b16209 100644
--- a/include/linux/kexec_handover.h
+++ b/include/linux/kexec_handover.h
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ bool is_kho_boot(void);
 
 int kho_preserve_folio(struct folio *folio);
 void kho_unpreserve_folio(struct folio *folio);
+int kho_preserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
+void kho_unpreserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
 int kho_preserve_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages);
 void kho_unpreserve_pages(struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages);
 int kho_preserve_vmalloc(void *ptr, struct kho_vmalloc *preservation);
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ void *kho_alloc_preserve(size_t size);
 void kho_unpreserve_free(void *mem);
 void kho_restore_free(void *mem);
 struct folio *kho_restore_folio(phys_addr_t phys);
+struct page *kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys);
 struct page *kho_restore_pages(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long nr_pages);
 void *kho_restore_vmalloc(const struct kho_vmalloc *preservation);
 int kho_add_subtree(const char *name, void *blob, size_t size);
@@ -65,6 +68,13 @@ static inline int kho_preserve_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int nr_pages)
 
 static inline void kho_unpreserve_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int nr_pages) { }
 
+static inline int kho_preserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+
+static inline void kho_unpreserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order) { }
+
 static inline int kho_preserve_vmalloc(void *ptr,
 				       struct kho_vmalloc *preservation)
 {
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
index e836efd98795..dd41d324c213 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c
@@ -393,10 +393,9 @@ static void kho_init_folio(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 		prep_compound_page(page, order);
 }
 
-static struct page *kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys, bool is_folio)
+static struct page *__kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned int *order)
 {
 	struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(PHYS_PFN(phys));
-	unsigned long nr_pages;
 	union kho_page_info info;
 
 	if (!page)
@@ -410,17 +409,14 @@ static struct page *kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys, bool is_folio)
 	 */
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(info.magic != KHO_PAGE_MAGIC))
 		return NULL;
-	nr_pages = (1 << info.order);
 
 	/* Clear private to make sure later restores on this page error out. */
 	page->private = 0;
+	if (order)
+		*order = info.order;
 
-	if (is_folio)
-		kho_init_folio(page, info.order);
-	else
-		kho_init_pages(page, nr_pages);
+	adjust_managed_page_count(page, 1UL << info.order);
 
-	adjust_managed_page_count(page, nr_pages);
 	return page;
 }
 
@@ -432,12 +428,41 @@ static struct page *kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys, bool is_folio)
  */
 struct folio *kho_restore_folio(phys_addr_t phys)
 {
-	struct page *page = kho_restore_page(phys, true);
+	unsigned int order;
+	struct page *page = __kho_restore_page(phys, &order);
+
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+
+	kho_init_folio(page, order);
 
-	return page ? page_folio(page) : NULL;
+	return page_folio(page);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_restore_folio);
 
+/**
+ * kho_restore_page - restore a high-order page block.
+ * @phys: physical address of the first page.
+ *
+ * Restore a high-order page block that was preserved with
+ * kho_preserve_page().
+ *
+ * Return: the head page on success, NULL on failure.
+ */
+struct page *kho_restore_page(phys_addr_t phys)
+{
+	unsigned int order;
+	struct page *page = __kho_restore_page(phys, &order);
+
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+
+	kho_init_high_order_page(page, order);
+
+	return page;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_restore_page);
+
 /**
  * kho_restore_pages - restore list of contiguous order 0 pages.
  * @phys: physical address of the first page.
@@ -457,10 +482,13 @@ struct page *kho_restore_pages(phys_addr_t phys, unsigned long nr_pages)
 	while (pfn < end_pfn) {
 		const unsigned int order =
 			min(count_trailing_zeros(pfn), ilog2(end_pfn - pfn));
-		struct page *page = kho_restore_page(PFN_PHYS(pfn), false);
+		unsigned int info_order;
+		struct page *page = __kho_restore_page(PFN_PHYS(pfn), &info_order);
 
 		if (!page)
 			return NULL;
+
+		kho_init_pages(page, 1UL << info_order);
 		pfn += 1 << order;
 	}
 
@@ -890,6 +918,51 @@ void kho_unpreserve_folio(struct folio *folio)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_unpreserve_folio);
 
+/**
+ * kho_preserve_page - preserve a high-order page block.
+ * @page: head page of the block.
+ * @order: order of the allocation.
+ *
+ * Instructs KHO to preserve a high-order contiguous allocation (like a DMA
+ * buffer) as a single unit. It must be restored using kho_restore_page() to
+ * ensure the tail pages are correctly initialized with a zero refcount.
+ *
+ * If a driver needs to split a block that has been preserved with this
+ * function, it must first unpreserve the block using kho_unpreserve_page(),
+ * perform the split, and then re-preserve the individual pages using
+ * kho_preserve_pages().
+ *
+ * Return: 0 on success, error code on failure
+ */
+int kho_preserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+	struct kho_radix_tree *tree = &kho_out.radix_tree;
+	const unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+
+	if (WARN_ON(kho_scratch_overlap(pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SIZE << order)))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return kho_radix_add_page(tree, pfn, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_preserve_page);
+
+/**
+ * kho_unpreserve_page - unpreserve a high-order page block.
+ * @page: head page of the block.
+ * @order: order of the allocation.
+ *
+ * Instructs KHO to unpreserve a high-order block that was preserved by
+ * kho_preserve_page() before.
+ */
+void kho_unpreserve_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+	struct kho_radix_tree *tree = &kho_out.radix_tree;
+	const unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
+
+	kho_radix_del_page(tree, pfn, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kho_unpreserve_page);
+
 static unsigned int __kho_preserve_pages_order(unsigned long start_pfn,
 					       unsigned long end_pfn)
 {
@@ -927,7 +1000,8 @@ static void __kho_unpreserve(struct kho_radix_tree *tree,
  * @nr_pages: number of pages.
  *
  * Preserve a contiguous list of order 0 pages. Must be restored using
- * kho_restore_pages() to ensure the pages are restored properly as order 0.
+ * kho_restore_pages() to ensure the pages are restored properly as order 0
+ * with each page having a reference count of 1 (split).
  *
  * Return: 0 on success, error code on failure
  */
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