Re: [RFC PATCH v2] efi: arm64: Introduce /sys/firmware/efi/memreserve to tell the persistent pages

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On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 11:10:19AM -0500, Masayoshi Mizuma wrote:
> From: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> kexec reboot stops in early boot sequence because efi_config_parse_tables()
> refers garbage data. We can see the log with memblock=debug kernel option:
> 
>   efi:  ACPI 2.0=0x9821790014  PROP=0x8757f5c0  SMBIOS 3.0=0x9820740000  MEMRESERVE=0x9820bfdc58
>   memblock_reserve: [0x0000009820bfdc58-0x0000009820bfdc67] efi_config_parse_tables+0x228/0x278
>   memblock_reserve: [0x0000000082760000-0x00000000324d07ff] efi_config_parse_tables+0x228/0x278
>   memblock_reserve: [0xcc4f84ecc0511670-0x5f6e5214a7fd91f9] efi_config_parse_tables+0x244/0x278
>   memblock_reserve: [0xd2fd4144b9af693d-0xad0c1db1086f40a2] efi_config_parse_tables+0x244/0x278
>   memblock_reserve: [0x0c719bb159b1fadc-0x5aa6e62a1417ce12] efi_config_parse_tables+0x244/0x278
>   ...
> 
> That happens because 0x82760000, struct linux_efi_memreserve, is destroyed.
> 0x82760000 is pointed from efi.mem_reseve, and efi.mem_reserve points the
> head page of LPI pending table and LPI property table which are allocated by
> gic_reserve_range().
> 
> The destroyer is kexec. kexec locates the initrd to the area:
> 
>   ]# kexec -d -l /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-rc7 /boot/initramfs-5.4.0-rc7.img --reuse-cmdline
>   ...
>   initrd: base 82290000, size 388dd8ah (59301258)
>   ...
> 
> From dynamic debug log. initrd is located in segment[1]:
>   machine_kexec_prepare:70:
>     kexec kimage info:
>       type:        0
>       start:       85b30680
>       head:        0
>       nr_segments: 4
>         segment[0]: 0000000080480000 - 0000000082290000, 0x1e10000 bytes, 481 pages
>         segment[1]: 0000000082290000 - 0000000085b20000, 0x3890000 bytes, 905 pages
>         segment[2]: 0000000085b20000 - 0000000085b30000, 0x10000 bytes, 1 pages
>         segment[3]: 0000000085b30000 - 0000000085b40000, 0x10000 bytes, 1 pages
> 
> kexec searches the memory region to locate initrd through
> "System RAM" in /proc/iomem. The pending tables are included in
> "System RAM" because they are allocated by alloc_pages(), so kexec
> destroys the LPI pending tables.
> 
> Introduce /sys/firmware/efi/memreserve to tell the pages pointed by
> efi.mem_reserve so that kexec can avoid the area to locate initrd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masayoshi Mizuma <m.mizuma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 0b6b0c19a..07812d697 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -149,6 +149,45 @@ static ssize_t systab_show(struct kobject *kobj,
>  
>  static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_systab = __ATTR_RO_MODE(systab, 0400);
>  
> +static struct linux_efi_memreserve *efi_memreserve_root __ro_after_init;

> +static ssize_t memreserve_show(struct kobject *kobj,
> +			   struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> +{
> +	struct linux_efi_memreserve *rsv;
> +	phys_addr_t start, end;
> +	unsigned long prsv;
> +	char *str = buf;
> +	int count, i;
> +
> +	if (!kobj || !buf)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if ((efi_memreserve_root == (void *)ULONG_MAX) ||
> +			(!efi_memreserve_root))
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +
> +	for (prsv = efi_memreserve_root->next; prsv; prsv = rsv->next) {
> +		rsv = memremap(prsv, sizeof(*rsv), MEMREMAP_WB);
> +		if (!rsv) {
> +			pr_err("Could not map efi_memreserve\n");
> +			return -ENOMEM;
> +		}
> +		count = atomic_read(&rsv->count);
> +		for (i = 0; i < count; i++) {
> +			start = rsv->entry[i].base;
> +			end = start + rsv->entry[i].size - 1;
> +
> +			str += sprintf(str, "%pa-%pa\n", &start, &end);
> +		}
> +		memunmap(rsv);
> +	}
> +
> +	return str - buf;
> +}
> +
> +static struct kobj_attribute efi_attr_memreserve =
> +			__ATTR_RO_MODE(memreserve, 0444);
> +

I think it's better to put above between #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC and #endif
because it's useful for only kexec...

>  #define EFI_FIELD(var) efi.var
>  
>  #define EFI_ATTR_SHOW(name) \
> @@ -180,6 +219,7 @@ static struct attribute *efi_subsys_attrs[] = {
>  	&efi_attr_runtime.attr,
>  	&efi_attr_config_table.attr,
>  	&efi_attr_fw_platform_size.attr,

> +	&efi_attr_memreserve.attr,

Same as.
I'll post the patch to change above and will remove the RFC.

Thanks,
Masa

>  	NULL,
>  };
>  
> @@ -964,7 +1004,6 @@ int efi_status_to_err(efi_status_t status)
>  }
>  
>  static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(efi_mem_reserve_persistent_lock);
> -static struct linux_efi_memreserve *efi_memreserve_root __ro_after_init;
>  
>  static int __init efi_memreserve_map_root(void)
>  {
> -- 
> 2.21.0
> 



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