Re: [PATCH] [v2] arm64: efi: make sure vmlinux load address aligned on 2MB

Timur Tabi
2015-10-28T18:12:36Z

On 10/28/2015 01:08 PM, Mark Rutland wrote:

> arm64: efi: ensure kernel is loaded at correct address
>
> The kernel image needs to be loaded text_offset_bytes from a 2M-aligned
> base, per Documentation/arm64/booting.txt. If loaded at the wrong offset
> modulo 2M, __create_page_tables will create incorrect page tables.
>
> The EFI stub implicitly assumes that dram_base (i.e. the lowest address
> with a EFI_MEMORY_WB attribute) is 2M-aligned, and tries to load the
> kernel at dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET. If dram_base is not 2M-aligned, the
> kernel will be loaded at the wrong offset from 2M.

Thanks, I'll use that. I messed up a couple other things, so I need to
send out a v3 anyway.

>> - *image_addr = *reserve_addr = dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET;
>> + *image_addr = *reserve_addr =
>> + round_up(dram_base, SZ_2M) + TEXT_OFFSET;
>
> We also need to fix the test for whether we need to relocate the kernel:
> (*image_addr != (dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET)).
>
> When dram_base is not 2M aligned, that is broken, and it's been broken
> since it was introduced in commit 3c7f255039a2ad6e ("arm64: efi: add EFI
> stub") in v3.16.
>
> It's a bit hideous to fix the general case, though, it seems.

Um, so I should I do something more in my v3 patch, or is this a change
for a different patch?

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