From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>
To: "WANG Rui" <r@hev.cc>, "Huacai Chen" <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Ilias Apalodimas" <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>,
"WANG Xuerui" <kernel@xen0n.name>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
loongarch@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] efi/libstub: Ensure instruction cache coherency after kernel relocation
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:07:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e631d1e5-3f05-42ab-885d-4bd660612d63@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7197b01-9b7e-4f0a-bcd2-9d6d894e8cd9@app.fastmail.com>
On Mon, 27 Apr 2026, at 18:11, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2026, at 10:47, WANG Rui wrote:
>> Changes since [v1]:
>> * Move efi_cache_sync_image() after check_platform_features(), matching arm64.
>> * Add "()" after function name in the subject.
>>
>> The EFI stub relocates the kernel image by copying it to a new memory
>> location using memcpy(). On architectures where the instruction and data
>> caches are not automatically coherent, the copied instructions may not be
>> visible to the instruction fetch unit without explicit cache maintenance.
>>
>> This series adds the missing call to efi_cache_sync_image() in the generic
>> relocation path, and provides a LoongArch implementation using the ibar
>> instruction to ensure instruction fetches observe the updated contents.
>>
>> [v1]: https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/20260427034451.717817-1-r@hev.cc
>>
>> WANG Rui (2):
>> efi/loongarch: Implement efi_cache_sync_image
>> efi/libstub: Synchronize instruction cache after kernel relocation
>>
>
> Queued up in efi/urgent - thanks.
>
This breaks the ARM build.
Since LoongArch is the only remaining user of efi_relocate_kernel(), I'll move it into drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/loongarch-stub.c first, and fix up these patches accordingly afterwards (no need to resend anything)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-28 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-27 8:47 [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] efi/libstub: Ensure instruction cache coherency after kernel relocation WANG Rui
2026-04-27 8:47 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 1/2] efi/loongarch: Implement efi_cache_sync_image() WANG Rui
2026-04-27 8:47 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 2/2] efi/libstub: Synchronize instruction cache after kernel relocation WANG Rui
2026-04-27 16:11 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 0/2] efi/libstub: Ensure instruction cache coherency " Ard Biesheuvel
2026-04-28 11:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
2026-04-29 7:32 ` Huacai Chen
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