From: jhugo@codeaurora.org (Jeffrey Hugo)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 10:30:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a39d60da-ff74-0bcb-4a02-05cb41e58fa5@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170208170305.GI15459@leverpostej>
On 2/8/2017 10:03 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:35:02AM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
>> On 02/08/2017 10:29 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>>>>> + status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr,
>>>>>>> + "initrd=", dram_base + SZ_512M,
>>>>>>> + (unsigned long *)&initrd_addr,
>>>>>>> + (unsigned long *)&initrd_size);
>>>>>
>>>>> So I know this patch is almost three years old, but why is there a
>>>>> 512M limit on the initrd size?
>>>>>
>>> How do you reckon this constitutes a limit?
>>
>> handle_cmdline_files() calls efi_high_alloc() with that limit. I'm
>> still trying to understand all the details myself, but apparently
>> our firmware and initrd need to fit within the first 512MB because
>> of dram_base + SZ_512M. When we change "dram_base + SZ_512M" to
>> "~0", everything works.
>
> Just to check, how big is that initrd?
>
> I guess it's possible that there simply isn't sufficient contiguous free
> memory in that range, even if the initrd isn't that large. Can you share
> the EFI memory map dump from booting with efi=debug?
>
> We originally needed to restrict this to ensure that the kernel could
> map the initrd (and I think the 512M restriction specifically was
> inherited from the DTB mapping restriction). Since then, we have relaxed
> things in the kernel, and today Documentation/arm64/booting.txt says:
>
> If an initrd/initramfs is passed to the kernel at boot, it must
> reside entirely within a 1 GB aligned physical memory window of
> up to 32 GB in size that fully covers the kernel Image as well.
>
> ... so I think the EFI stub should be able to take advantage of that
> relaxation.
I agree. The wrinkle I can see in this is it looks like KASLR can put
the kernel anywhere in RAM. How do we ensure initrd is within 32GB of
the kernel on a system with 256 GB of RAM?
>
> Ard?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-04 18:45 [PATCH v3 00/10] arm64: UEFI support Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] lib: add fdt_empty_tree.c Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] doc: efi-stub.txt updates for ARM Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] efi: add helper function to get UEFI params from FDT Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] arm64: Add function to create identity mappings Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] efi: Add shared FDT related functions for ARM/ARM64 Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Leif Lindholm
2014-04-09 14:20 ` Mark Rutland
2014-04-10 12:54 ` Mark Salter
2017-02-08 16:28 ` Timur Tabi
2017-02-08 16:29 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-08 16:35 ` Timur Tabi
2017-02-08 17:03 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-08 17:22 ` Jeffrey Hugo
2017-02-08 17:30 ` Jeffrey Hugo [this message]
2017-02-08 17:34 ` Mark Rutland
2017-02-08 17:40 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] doc: arm64: add description of EFI stub support Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] arm64: add EFI runtime services Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] doc: arm: add UEFI support documentation Leif Lindholm
2014-04-04 18:45 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] efi/arm64: ignore dtb= when UEFI SecureBoot is enabled Leif Lindholm
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