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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@odin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Map EFI memmap entries in-order at runtime
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:16:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150928061646.GA21690@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150927180633.GA29466@srcf.ucam.org>


* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 09:30:48AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Sep 26, 2015 1:19 PM, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sadly a lot of firmware is known to fail in that configuration :(  That was very much our guest choice.
> > >
> > 
> > Why can't we map everything completely 1:1 (VA = PA) and call the
> > setVA thing but pass it literally the identity.
> 
> Last time I tried this I found that some firmware makes assumptions 
> about having high addresses.

So the question is, what does Windows do?

PC firmware is a hostile environment for Linux, to be compatible the best we can 
do is to mimic the environment that the firmware is tested under - i.e. try to use 
the firmware in the way Windows uses it.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-28  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25 22:02 [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes Matt Fleming
2015-09-25 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Map EFI memmap entries in-order at runtime Matt Fleming
2015-09-26  5:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-26  6:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 13:43     ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-27  7:03       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-28  6:49         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-28  8:22           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-28  9:51             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-29  9:12               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-29 10:41                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-29 14:18                   ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-29 13:52                 ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-26 17:01     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-26 17:20       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 18:15         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 19:49           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 19:57             ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-26 20:09               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 20:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-27 16:30                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-27 18:06                     ` Matthew Garrett
2015-09-28  6:16                       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2015-09-28  6:41                         ` Matthew Garrett
2015-09-29 21:58                           ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-30  9:30                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-30 16:43                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 17:24                                 ` James Bottomley
2015-09-30  0:54                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 19:55         ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-27  6:50       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 12:48   ` [tip:core/urgent] x86/efi: Fix boot crash by mapping EFI memmap entries bottom-up at runtime, instead of top-down tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2015-10-02  9:44     ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-25 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64/efi: Don't pad between EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME regions Matt Fleming
2015-09-26  6:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-26  7:08     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-27  7:06       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-27 10:40         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-28  6:20           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-29  9:31           ` Dave Young
2015-09-29 10:24             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-29 14:36           ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-30  0:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  8:33               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-30  1:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  1:16           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30  1:19             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  4:24             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-01 10:44           ` Ingo Molnar

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