Re: [PATCH] export efi.flags to sysfs

[Borislav Petkov <bp-Gina5bIWoIWzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:24:38AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > How does /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/* look like with old mapping? Can't
> > > > we look at it and figure out if it is 1:1 or not.
> > > 
> > > There's phys_addr and virt_addr, (virt_addr - phys_addr) will always be
> > > -64G for 1:1 map, ioremapped addresses space is different.
> 
> Correct myself it's top to down (-4G - -64G) instead of down to top.

This is the new mapping.

AFAICR, the question is about the old mapping. Which was "normal"
ioremap into the kernel page table. The new mapping is into another page
table.

> > I am curious that what's the meaning of 1:1 mapping here? So far I thought
> > that means virt and physical addresses are same but that does not seem
> > to be the case. So what does it mean?
> 
> while doing the mapping, we will iterate the memory ranges (md[])
> 
> Like below without considering alignment:
> Virt addr   (down) <------------------------------> (top)
> md0 (size0)                                 <-----> 
>                                              (size0)
> md1 (size1)                        <------->
>                                     (size1)
> ...
> 
> Boris can correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, this is the new mapping, top = -2G.

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