Here is the V7 patchset 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 at darkstar ~]$ tree /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/ /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map/ |__ 0 | |__ attribute | |__ num_pages | |__ phys_addr | |__ type | |__ virt_addr |__ 1 [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 The patches are based on linus tree + tip master + 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. Changes from v3: - Greg: sysfs code move to use __ATTR_RO and attr_group - Boris: comments and code alignment - Added 3 new patches below 10-print-efi-runtime-memmap.patch - 10/12: print only runtime ranges in case EFI_DEBUG printing 11-reserve-setup-data-late.patch - fix a bug of kdump kernel, move function for reserving setup data ranges late after parsing memmap= cmdline params because kdump kernel will pass exact memmap late. 12-x86-kdebugfs-use-ioremap.patch - fix a bug of x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c, use ioremap instead of __va for low mem because __va does not work for exact memmap= Changes from V4: - variable efi_setup in 09/14 is changed to the physical address instead of the virtual address because it will be not iounmapped until entering virtual mode, it's too long and could cause leak. - sparse warnings fixes (Matt): Added 2 new patches to addressing sparse warnings: 01/14: x86-mm-sparse-warning-fix-for-early_memremap.patch 02/14: efi-use-early_memremap-and-early_memunmap.patch - krealloc fixes (Boris) - rebase on top of Linus tree + Matt's efi master tree (Boris) - a lot of documention/spelling fixes (Boris) - share function save_runtime_map in 1st/2nd kernel code (Matt) - style and other fixes detail see the patch changelog themselves. Changes from V5: - add efi_runtime_map_setup() and remove the extern variables thus other arches can reuse the runtime_map exporting code. (Matt) - check efi_reuse_config return value. (Matt) - move parse_efi_setup to efi_$(BITS).c (Boris) - call efi_runtime_map_init in efisubsys_init (Boris) - save_runtime_map cleanup. (Boris) Changes from V6: - update memmap in userspace to the saved runtime map, thus kernel code become cleaner. - patch 08: simplify save_runtime_map. - patch 09: simplify efi_map_regions and efi_map_regions_fixed. - remove the patch to handle print_efi_memmap for kexec kernel - remove the last patch for fixing __va usage in kdebugfs since I can not reproduce it in kdump kernel, it should be addressed seperately. - patch 06 (efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function): add a share function get_systab_virt_addr() - rebase to latest mainline tree The patches stay in kexec-efi-testing branch of below repo for testing: https://github.com/daveyoung/linux.git Dave Young (12): x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap efi: Use early_memremap and early_memunmap to fix sparse warnings efi: remove unused variables in __map_region efi: add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed efi: reserve boot service fix efi: cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function efi: export more efi table variable to sysfs efi: export efi runtime memory mapping to sysfs efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data x86: add xloadflags bit for efi runtime support on kexec x86: export x86 boot_params to sysfs x86: reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi | 20 ++ .../ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map | 34 ++ Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-boot_params | 38 +++ Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 3 + arch/x86/boot/header.S | 9 +- arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 14 + arch/x86/include/asm/io.h | 3 +- arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/kernel/ksysfs.c | 339 ++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 7 +- arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 10 +- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 345 ++++++++++++++++----- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c | 3 + arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 22 +- drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 11 + drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 1 + drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 49 ++- drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c | 181 +++++++++++ include/linux/efi.h | 16 + 20 files changed, 1010 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-efi-runtime-map create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-boot_params create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/ksysfs.c create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-map.c -- 1.8.3.1