Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided

Dave Young
2019-03-25T11:16:54Z

On 03/25/19 at 10:36am, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> On 3/25/19 7:15 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 03/25/19 at 09:54am, Boris Petkov wrote:
> >> On March 25, 2019 9:27:21 AM GMT+01:00, Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >>> On 3/25/19 3:59 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>> On 03/25/19 at 06:47am, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> >>>>> On 3/25/19 3:19 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>>>> On 03/25/19 at 02:01pm, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>>>> I think normally people do not see this bug, because kernel will
> >>> set the
> >>>>>> rsdp in boot_params->acpi_rsdp_addr. Maybe you are testing with
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think it's only done for file-based kexec interface.
> >>>>
> >>>> Saw Kairui's another reply, yes, kexec-tools need a patch to fill the
> >>>> value as well then.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would vote for a repost of your old patch with some #ifdef
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for comments, Dave, Kairui and Baoquan.
> >>>
> >>> The problem for me is it's a regression in v5.1-rc1, that breaks
> >>> existing setup. If early parsing of RSDP is required only for newly
> >>> supported configuration, I'm fine such configuration requires
> >>> new tools or new options.
> >>>
> >>> This is the 1st version plus #ifdef around the EFI code.
> >>
> >> I'm going to repeat that again until you get it:
> >>
> >> If the kexec kernel should continue to use efi_systab_init() then you
> >> should make efi_get_rsdp_addr() exit early in the kexec-ed kernel.
> >
> > In that way, early parsing will fail in kexeced kernel, am I missing
> > something? The early code become complicated but since we have already
> > the early acpi parsing why not to make it consistent in kexeced kernel?
>
> AFAIU, early parsing is new code in v5.1-rc1 to support kexec on systems
> with hotpluggable memory with KASLR enabled. For systems that requires the
> new feature, it may be ok to say "you need to use another kexec interface"
> and/or "you need new kexec-tools".

Ok, it makes some sense, Kairui mentioned he will work on a kexec-tools
patch then this becomes a must.

Thanks
Dave