On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 12:26:20PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 7d453eee36ae ("x86/efi: Wire up CONFIG_EFI_MIXED") introduced a
> regression for the functionality to load kernels above 4G. The relevant
> (incorrect) reasoning behind this change can be seen in the commit
> message,
>
> "The xloadflags field in the bzImage header is also updated to reflect
> that the kernel supports both entry points by setting both of
> XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_32 and XLF_EFI_HANDOVER_64 when CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y.
> XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G is disabled so that the kernel text is
> guaranteed to be addressable with 32-bits."
>
> This is obviously bogus since 32-bit EFI loaders will never place the
> kernel above the 4G mark. So this restriction is entirely unnecessary.
Hi Matt,
So with new kexec syscall I have written 64bit bzImage loader. For now
I would like to detect this situation and disable loading and once
32bit loader gets implemented it can take care of loading bzImage below
4G.
So how do I find out if EFI is 32bit.
Thanks
Vivek
>
> But things are worse than that - since we want to encourage people to
> always compile with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=y so that their kernels work out of
> the box for both 32-bit and 64-bit firmware, commit 7d453eee36ae
> effectively disables XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G completely.
>
> Remove the overzealous and superfluous restriction and restore the
> XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G functionality.
>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Peter, I realise that we're right on the edge of the v3.15 release here,
> so this probably needs marking for stable (it only affects v3.15).
>
> arch/x86/boot/header.S | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/header.S b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
> index 0ca9a5c362bc..84c223479e3c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/header.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/header.S
> @@ -375,8 +375,7 @@ xloadflags:
> # define XLF0 0
> #endif
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && \
> - !defined(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) && defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
> /* kernel/boot_param/ramdisk could be loaded above 4g */
> # define XLF1 XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G
> #else
> --
> 1.9.0
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