[PATCH V3 0/4] map GHES memory region with EFI memory map

Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
2015-06-11T18:26:29Z

From: "Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang" <zjzhang@codeaurora.org>

On a platform with APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) enabled, firmware
updates a memory region with hardware error record using nocache
attribute. When OS reads the region, since it maps the region with
cacahed attribute even though EFI memory map defines this region as
uncached, OS gets stale data and errorneously reports there is no new
HW error.

When ghes driver maps the memory region, it uses the cache attribute
according to EFI memory map, if EFI memory map feature is enabled
at runtime.

Since both arch/x86 and arch/ia64 implemented architecture agnostic EFI
memory map attribue lookup function efi_memattributes(), the code is
moved from arch/x86 into EFI subsystem and is declared as __weak; archs
other than ia64 should not override the default implementation.

V3:
1. Rebased to v4.1-rc7.
2. Moved efi_mem_attributes() from arch/x86 to drivers/firmware/efi
and declared it as __weak.
3. Introduced ARCH_APEI_PAGE_KERNEL_UC to allow arch specific page
protection type for UC.
4. Removed efi_ioremap(). It can not be used for GHES memory region
mapping purpose since ioremap can not be used in atomic context.

V2:
1. Rebased to v4.1-rc5.
2. Split removal of efi_mem_attributes() and creation of efi_ioremap()
into two patches.

Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang (4):
x86: acpi: define uncached page flag
arm64: acpi: define uncached page flag
efi: x86: rearrange efi_mem_attributes()
acpi, apei: use EFI memmap to map GHES memory

arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 4 ++++
arch/x86/include/asm/acpi.h | 4 ++++
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 18 ------------------
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 9 ++++++++-
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)