Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, efi: Add "efi_fake_mem_mirror" boot option

Matt Fleming
2015-08-25T23:46:19Z

On Fri, 21 Aug, at 02:16:00AM, Taku Izumi wrote:
> This patch introduces new boot option named "efi_fake_mem_mirror".
> By specifying this parameter, you can mark specific memory as
> mirrored memory. This is useful for debugging of Address Range
> Mirroring feature.
>
> For example, if you specify "efi_fake_mem_mirror=2G@4G,2G@0x10a0000000",
> the original (firmware provided) EFI memmap will be updated so that
> the specified memory regions have EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE attribute:
>
> <original EFI memmap>
> efi: mem00: [Boot Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000001000) (0MB)
> efi: mem01: [Loader Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000002000) (0MB)
> ...
> efi: mem35: [Boot Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000047ee6000-0x0000000048014000) (1MB)
> efi: mem36: [Conventional Memory| | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000100000000-0x00000020a0000000) (129536MB)
> efi: mem37: [Reserved |RUN| | | | | | | | |UC] range=[0x0000000060000000-0x0000000090000000) (768MB)
>
> <updated EFI memmap>
> efi: mem00: [Boot Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000001000) (0MB)
> efi: mem01: [Loader Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000002000) (0MB)
> ...
> efi: mem35: [Boot Data | | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000047ee6000-0x0000000048014000) (1MB)
> efi: mem36: [Conventional Memory| |RELY| | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000100000000-0x0000000180000000) (2048MB)
> efi: mem37: [Conventional Memory| | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000180000000-0x00000010a0000000) (61952MB)
> efi: mem38: [Conventional Memory| |RELY| | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x00000010a0000000-0x0000001120000000) (2048MB)
> efi: mem39: [Conventional Memory| | | | | | |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000001120000000-0x00000020a0000000) (63488MB)
> efi: mem40: [Reserved |RUN| | | | | | | | |UC] range=[0x0000000060000000-0x0000000090000000) (768MB)
>
> And you will find that the following message is output:
>
> efi: Memory: 4096M/131455M mirrored memory
>
> Signed-off-by: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 4 +-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 183 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> index 1c7380d..5c785e1 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
>

The quirks file isn't intended to be used for this kind of feature.
It's very much a repository for workarounds for quirky firmware, i.e.
known bugs.

Instead, how about putting all this into a new fake_mem.c file? Going
further than that, there's nothing that I can see that looks
particularly x86-specific, so how about sticking all this in
drivers/firmware/efi/fake_mem.c so that the arm64 folks can make use
of it if/when they want to start playing around with
EFI_MEMORY_MORE_RELIABLE?

> static efi_char16_t efi_dummy_name[6] = { 'D', 'U', 'M', 'M', 'Y', 0 };
>
> +#define EFI_MAX_FAKE_MIRROR 8
> +static struct range fake_mirrors[EFI_MAX_FAKE_MIRROR];
> +static int num_fake_mirror;
> +
> static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia;
>
> /*
> @@ -288,3 +292,168 @@ bool efi_poweroff_required(void)
> {
> return !!acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware;
> }
> +
> +void __init efi_fake_memmap(void)
> +{
> + efi_memory_desc_t *md;
> + void *p, *q;
> + int i;
> + int nr_map = memmap.nr_map;
> + u64 start, end, m_start, m_end;
> + u64 new_memmap_phy;
> + void *new_memmap;
> +
> + if (!num_fake_mirror)
> + return;
> +
> + /* count up the number of EFI memory descriptor */
> + for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
> + md = p;
> + start = md->phys_addr;
> + end = start + (md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) - 1;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i < num_fake_mirror; i++) {
> + /* mirroring range */
> + m_start = fake_mirrors[i].start;
> + m_end = fake_mirrors[i].end;
> +
> + if (m_start <= start) {
> + /* split into 2 parts */
> + if (start < m_end && m_end < end)
> + nr_map++;
> + }
> + if (start < m_start && m_start < end) {
> + /* split into 3 parts */
> + if (m_end < end)
> + nr_map += 2;
> + /* split into 2 parts */
> + if (end <= m_end)
> + nr_map++;
> + }
> + }
> + }
> +
> + /* allocate memory for new EFI memmap */
> + new_memmap_phy = memblock_alloc(memmap.desc_size * nr_map, PAGE_SIZE);
> + if (!new_memmap_phy)
> + return;
> +
> + /* create new EFI memmap */
> + new_memmap = early_memremap(new_memmap_phy, memmap.desc_size * nr_map);
> + for (p = memmap.map, q = new_memmap;
> + p < memmap.map_end;
> + p += memmap.desc_size, q += memmap.desc_size) {

Can we rename 'p' and 'q', 'old' and 'new'? Otherwise it gets a little
tricky to follow the below code.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center