Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] efi/x86: add support for generic EFI mixed mode boot

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 21:54, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 09:41:33PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 21:20, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 21:02, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 21:00, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 08:36:42PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 18:22, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 12:15:10PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > > > > > > > What I'm doing is creating an x86-64 defconfig based on tip:efi/core,
> > > > > > > > and then running it via
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu Haswell -pflash qemu/OVMF_64.fd \
> > > > > > >                                                  ^^^^^^^
> > > > > > > That OVMF_64.fd is incorrect copy/paste from a different run, the panic
> > > > > > > case is using OVMF-mixed-mode-compat-section.fd.
> > > > > > > >   -drive file=fat:rw:qemu/boot -nographic -m 3072
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for the patch. Interestingly, I don't even make it to the point
> > > > > > where it crashes, and I end up in an ASSERT() in the firmware:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ASSERT_EFI_ERROR (Status = Not Found)
> > > > > > ASSERT /home/ardbie01/build/edk2/MdeModulePkg/Universal/ReportStatusCodeRouter/RuntimeDxe/ReportStatusCodeRouterRuntimeDxe.c(347):
> > > > > > !EFI_ERROR (Status)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > which appears to be a result of the fact that the memory map passed to
> > > > > > SetVirtualAddressMap() does not cover some function pointer that gets
> > > > > > converted in that code.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I don't remember - does mixed mode even work in general with 3 GB of memory?
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh -- is there some option to enable debugging assertions? I did see
> > > > > that it crashed somewhere inside SetVirtualMap (i.e. we called it and
> > > > > it never returned).
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The ASSERT()s are always active, but you don't see them if you don't
> > > > expose the debugcon
> > > >
> > > > > For some reason, with nokaslr on the command line, I can't get this to
> > > > > crash. All the addresses seem to be within 4Gb, so it ought to work, no?
> > > >
> > > > The issue is in the memory map we compile and send back to the firware
> > > > - apparently, that ends up wrong for some reason.
> > >
> > > BTW I uploaded another version which uses Loadimage/Startimage (and
> > > the .compat section) for mixed mode kernels passed to QEMU via the
> > > command line
> > >
> > > https://people.linaro.org/~ard.biesheuvel/OVMF-mixed-mode-compat-section-cmdline.fd
> >
> > I see this in the memory map
> >
> > [    0.000000] efi: mem47: [Conventional Memory|   |  |  |  |  |  |  |
> >  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC] range=[0x0000000100000000-0x000000013fffffff]
> > (1024MB)
> >
> > so it looks like qemu-system-x86_64 puts the memory in a weird place?
> > Or is this expected?
>
> Mine ended here:
> [    0.000000] efi: mem45: [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC] range=[0x00000000ffc00000-0x00000000ffffffff] (4MB)
> are you running with -m 3072 or more?
>

That is not memory, it's some mmio region

> If you get memory mapped above 4Gb you will almost certainly crash in
> the call to SetVirtualMemoryMap, but that's usually because the memmap
> you pass in is above 4Gb and can't be accessed by the firmware at all.



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