Re: [PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

Matt Fleming
2013-10-28T11:22:46Z

On Tue, 08 Oct, at 06:48:31PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
>
> We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services contiguously on
> virtual addresses starting from -4G down for a total max space of 64G.
> This way, we provide for stable runtime services addresses across
> kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use them.
>
> This way, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't
> pollute the kernel namespace (you can see how the whole ioremapping and
> saving and restoring of PGDs is gone now).
>
> Also, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as a
> fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's some
> b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to hold
> up the sarcasm here...).
>
> Add UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt, while at it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>
> ---
> Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt | 7 +++
> arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 47 ++++++++++++-------
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h | 3 +-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c | 8 +++-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/efi.h | 1 +
> 8 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

[...]

> @@ -949,8 +978,17 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> count++;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> + efi_scratch.efi_pgt = (pgd_t *)(unsigned long)real_mode_header->trampoline_pgd;
> +
> + if (!test_bit(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP, &x86_efi_facility))
> + efi_scratch.use_pgd = true;
> +#endif
> +
> BUG_ON(!efi.systab);

Could you use the efi_enabled() function to test for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
instead of test_bit()?

[...]

> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index fa47d80ab4b5..beff433aa8c0 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ extern int __init efi_setup_pcdp_console(char *);
> #define EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES 3 /* Can we use runtime services? */
> #define EFI_MEMMAP 4 /* Can we use EFI memory map? */
> #define EFI_64BIT 5 /* Is the firmware 64-bit? */
> +#define EFI_OLD_MEMMAP 6 /* Use old mapping method */

Hmm... I'm wondering whether this should actually be,

#define EFI_ARCH_1 6 /* Architecture-specific option */

and in arch/x86/include/ we could then do,

/*
* Lots of info about why we need to switch to a new mapping scheme, but
* also why the old scheme might be desirable....
*/
#define EFI_OLD_MEMMAP EFI_ARCH_1

This way we won't exhaust the bitspace quite so soon (since ARM/ARM64
can reuse EFI_ARCH_1 if they need it), plus this memory mapping method
is a very architecture-specific thing and so makes sense to hide it in
the bowels of arch/x86. If it turns out that ARM/ARM64 need the exact
same config option we can delete EFI_ARCH_1 and move EFI_OLD_MEMMAP to
include/linux/efi.h just like in your original patch.

What do you think?

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center