riscv: Fix memblock reservation for device tree blob
This fixes an error with how the FDT blob is reserved in memblock. An incorrect physical address calculation exposed the FDT header to unintended corruption, which typically manifested with of_fdt_raw_init() faulting during late boot after fdt_totalsize() returned a wrong value. Systems with smaller physical memory sizes more frequently trigger this issue, as the kernel is more likely to allocate from the DMA32 zone where bbl places the DTB after the kernel image. Commit 671f9a3e ("RISC-V: Setup initial page tables in two stages") changed the mapping of the DTB to reside in the fixmap area. Consequently, early_init_fdt_reserve_self() cannot be used anymore in setup_bootmem() since it relies on __pa() to derive a physical address, which does not work with dtb_early_va that is no longer a valid kernel logical address. The reserved[0x1] region shows the effect of the pointer underflow resulting from the __pa(initial_boot_params) offset subtraction: ...
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