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@ 2013-11-21  6:17 dyoung
  2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 1/9 v3] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region dyoung
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From: dyoung @ 2013-11-21  6:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-efi, x86, mjg59, hpa, James.Bottomley, vgoyal, ebiederm,
	horms, kexec, bp, greg, matt, toshi.kani

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Hi,

Here is the V3 for supporting kexec kernel efi runtime.
Per pervious discussion I pass the 1st kernel efi runtime mapping
via setup_data to 2nd kernel. Besides of the runtime mapping
info I also pass the fw_vendor, runtime, config table, smbios
physical address in setup_data. EFI spec mentioned fw_vendor,
runtime, config table addresses will be converted to virt address
after entering virtual mode, but we will use it as physical address
in efi_init. For smbios EFI spec did not mention about the address
updating, but during my test on a HP workstation, the bios will
convert it to Virt addr, thus pass it in setup_data as well.

For fw_vendor, runtime, config table, I export them in /sys/firmware/
efi/, smbios is already in /sys/firmware/efi/systab.

For efi runtime mapping I add a new directory /sys/firmware/efi/
runtime-map/ like below
[dave@darkstar ~]$ tree /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/
/sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/
├── 0
│   ├── attribute
│   ├── num_pages
│   ├── phys_addr
│   ├── type
│   └── virt_addr
├── 1
│   ├── attribute
│   ├── num_pages
│   ├── phys_addr
│   ├── type
│   └── virt_addr
[snip]
 
kexec-tools will assemble them as setup_data and pass to 2nd kernel.
I will send userspace patches as well.

Limitation is I only write support for x86_64, test on below machines:
Lenovo thinkpad t420
Dell inspiron 14 - 3421
HP Z420 workstation
Qemu + OVMF

Please help to review the patches.

The patches are based on matt's efi master tree

Changes from v1:
add one flag in xloadflags, so kexec-tools can safely load old kernel
without efi support.
coding style fixes
function name for map phys_addr to fixed virt_addr
Add ABI documentation for sysfs files

Changes from v2:
01/09: a new patch to remove unused variables in __map_region function
       catched by Toshi Kani
09/09: a new patch to export x86 boot_params to sysfs instead of use
       debugfs files
Matt: reuse __map_region instead do same thing in another function.
      add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed [02/09]
      check return value of krealloc
      sysfs dir name s/efi-runtime-map/runtime-map [06/09]
      use desc_size in efi_runtime_map
      for the xloadflags defination: +&& defined(CONFIG_KEXEC)
Greg: sysfs : one file one value for fw_vendor, runtime, tables. [05/09]
      Document them in ABI testing
HPA:  Document the new xloadflag

Also there's other function cleanup and improvement for error handling.

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Thanks
Dave

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2013-11-21  6:17 [patch 0/9 v3] kexec kernel efi runtime support dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 1/9 v3] efi: remove unused variables in __map_region dyoung
2013-11-21 15:54   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 2/9 v3] efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed dyoung
2013-11-21 16:39   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:59     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 3/9 v3] efi: reserve boot service fix dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 4/9 v3] efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function dyoung
2013-11-21 16:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:54     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 5/9 v3] efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs dyoung
2013-11-21 16:42   ` Greg KH
2013-11-22  2:51     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21 16:57   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-22  2:48     ` Dave Young
2013-11-23 13:15       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-11-25  5:28         ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 6/9 v3] efi: export efi runtime memory mapping " dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 7/9 v3] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 8/9 v3] x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec dyoung
2013-11-21  6:17 ` [patch 9/9 v3] x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs dyoung
2013-11-21 16:45   ` Greg KH
2013-11-22  2:45     ` Dave Young
2013-11-21  6:52 ` [patch 0/9 v3] kexec kernel efi runtime support Dave Young
2013-11-22 22:29 ` Toshi Kani

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