On 01/17/17 at 08:48pm, Nicolai Stange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17 2017, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>
> > On 16 January 2017 at 02:45, Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> efi_mem_reserve cares only about boot services regions, for making sure
> >> later efi_free_boot_services does not free areas which are still useful,
> >> such as bgrt image buffer.
> >>
> >> So add a new argument to efi_memmap_insert for this purpose.
> >>
> >
> > So what happens is we try to efi_mem_reserve() a regions that is not
> > bootservices code or data?
> > We shouldn't simply ignore it, because it is a serious condition.
>
> The efi_mem_desc_lookup() call in efi_arch_mem_reserve() wouldn't return
> anything and the latter would
>
> pr_err("Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor for %pa\n", &addr);
>
> then.
>
> This is so because efi_mem_desc_lookup() searches only for regions that
> either
> - are of type EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA or EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA
> - or which have EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME set already:
>
> if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
> md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA &&
> md->type != EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA) {
> continue;
> }
>
> For EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA and EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME,
> efi_arch_mem_reserve() would be a nop.
>
> So we're fine here? Do you want to have a more descriptive error message
> than "Failed to lookup EFI memory descriptor"?
>
>
> For the other checks you suggested in that other thread, i.e. for the
> post-slab_is_available() condition and so: let me wait until Dave's
> series has stabilized (or even picked) and I'll submit patches for
> what remains to be sanity checked then.
>
> Also, since Dave eliminated the need for late efi_mem_reserve()'s,
> my 20b1e22d01a4 ("x86/efi: Don't allocate memmap through memblock after
> mm_init()") should certainly get reverted at some point.
While testing my patches with latest edk2, I found another thing to be
fixed, I will repost bgrt patch according to Ard's comment tomorrow,
maybe with below patch as another fix to the memblock_alloc late
callback.
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-x86.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
+++ linux-x86/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
}
new_size = efi.memmap.desc_size * num_entries;
- new_phys = kzalloc(new_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ new_phys = efi_memmap_alloc(num_entries);
if (!new_phys) {
pr_err("Failed to allocate new EFI memmap\n");
return;
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicolai
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