From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:18:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528E94D1.2050809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131121230744.GA31592-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
On 11/21/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 02:01:24PM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
>>
>> Some platform have firmware that violates the UEFI spec and access boot
>> service code or data segments after the system has called ExitBootServices().
>> The call to efi_reserve_boot_services in setup_arch is a workaround to
>> avoid using boot service memory until after the kernel has done
>> SetVirtualAddressMap. However, this reservation fragments memory
>> which can cause large allocations early in boot (e.g. crash kernel)
>> to fail.
>
> This is a problem we have to solve, but I don't think this is the right
> way to solve it. Why do we not just reattempt to perform the allocation
> immediately after we've freed the boot services regions?
>
Wouldn't the memory map already have gotten scrambled all to hell by then?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-21 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 21:01 [RFC v2 0/2] Early use of boot service memory Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 21:01 ` [RFC v2 1/2] efi: " Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 21:01 ` [RFC v2 2/2] x86, " Jerry Hoemann
2013-11-21 22:19 ` Borislav Petkov
[not found] ` <1385067686-73500-1-git-send-email-jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21 23:07 ` [RFC v2 0/2] " Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20131121230744.GA31592-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-21 23:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-11-21 23:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-11-22 1:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22 1:25 ` jerry.hoemann
[not found] ` <20131122012524.GA5627-dMAi7lA+vBPDUbYHzcRnttBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22 1:29 ` Yinghai Lu
2013-11-22 2:29 ` Vivek Goyal
[not found] ` <20131122022957.GE31921-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22 3:32 ` HATAYAMA Daisuke
[not found] ` <CAE9FiQUx5rnA0kpqXRQYtpj9Qk-4bPGaUKEbbF=XHsZbnSd6Rg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22 1:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22 2:34 ` Vivek Goyal
[not found] ` <20131122023406.GG31921-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22 2:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-11-22 2:32 ` Vivek Goyal
2013-11-21 23:31 ` jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY
2013-11-21 23:38 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20131121233831.GB32121-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2013-11-22 1:05 ` jerry.hoemann-VXdhtT5mjnY
2013-11-22 1:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-16 18:43 ` jerry.hoemann
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