of/fdt: memblock_reserve /memreserve/ regions in the case of partial overlap
memblock_is_region_reserved() returns true in the case of a partial overlap, meaning that the current code fails to reserve the non-overlapping portion. This call was introduced as part of d1552ce4 "of/fdt: move memreserve and dtb memory reservations into core" which went into v3.16. I observed this causing a Midway system with a buggy fdt (the header declares itself to be larger than it really is) failing to boot because the over-inflated size of the fdt was causing it to seem to run into the swapper_pg_dir region, meaning the DT wasn't reserved. The symptoms were failing to find an disks or network and failing to boot. However given the ambiguity of whether things like the initrd are covered by /memreserve/ and similar I think it is best to also register the region rather than just ignoring it. Since memblock_reserve() handles overlaps just fine lets just warn and carry on. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16+
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