On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 2:44 PM Atish Patra <atishp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:52 PM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 09 Sep 2020 08:16:20 PDT (-0700), ardb@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Maxim reports boot failures on platforms that describe reserved memory > > > regions in DT that are disjoint from system DRAM, and which are converted > > > to EfiReservedMemory regions by the EFI subsystem in u-boot. > > > > > > As it turns out, the whole notion of discovering the base of DRAM is > > > problematic, and it would be better to simply rely on the EFI memory > > > allocation routines instead, and derive the FDT and initrd allocation > > > limits from the actual placement of the kernel (which is what defines > > > the start of the linear region anyway) > > > > > > Finally, we should be able to get rid of get_dram_base() entirely. > > > However, as RISC-V only just started using it, we will need to address > > > that at a later time. > > > > Looks like we're using dram_base to derive two argumets to > > efi_relocate_kernel(): the preferred load address and the minimum load address. > > I don't see any reason why we can't use the same PAGE_OFFSET-like logic that > > x86 uses for the minimum load address, but I don't think we have any mechanism > > like "struct boot_params" so we'd need to come up with something. > > > > As discussed in the other thread > (https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-efi/msg20262.html), > we don't need to do anything special. efi_relocate_kernel can just > take preferred address as 0 > so that efi_bs_alloc will fail and efi_low_alloc_above will be used to > allocate 2MB/4MB aligned address as per requirement. > > I don't think the other changes in this series will cause any issue > for RISC-V. I will test it and update anyways. > > > > Cc: Maxim Uvarov <maxim.uvarov@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> > > > Cc: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Francois Ozog <francois.ozog@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Etienne CARRIERE <etienne.carriere@xxxxxx> > > > Cc: Takahiro Akashi <takahiro.akashi@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Patrice CHOTARD <patrice.chotard@xxxxxx> > > > Cc: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Grant Likely <Grant.Likely@xxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Christophe Priouzeau <christophe.priouzeau@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Rouven Czerwinski <r.czerwinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Patrick DELAUNAY <patrick.delaunay@xxxxxx> > > > > > > Ard Biesheuvel (3): > > > efi/libstub: Export efi_low_alloc_above() to other units > > > efi/libstub: Use low allocation for the uncompressed kernel > > > efi/libstub: base FDT and initrd placement on image address not DRAM > > > base > > > > > > arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h | 6 +- > > > arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +- > > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm32-stub.c | 177 ++++---------------- > > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub.c | 2 +- > > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 3 + > > > drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/relocate.c | 4 +- > > > 6 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-) > I verified the above patches along with the following RISC-V specific changes. diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h index 93c305a638f4..dd6ceea9d548 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_fdt_addr(unsigned long dram_base) static inline unsigned long efi_get_max_initrd_addr(unsigned long dram_base, unsigned long image_addr) { - return dram_base + SZ_256M; + return image_addr + SZ_256M; } --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/riscv-stub.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/riscv-stub.c @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(unsigned long *image_addr, */ preferred_addr = round_up(dram_base, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN) + MIN_KIMG_ALIGN; status = efi_relocate_kernel(image_addr, kernel_size, *image_size, - preferred_addr, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN, dram_base); + 0, MIN_KIMG_ALIGN, 0); FWIW: Tested-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@xxxxxxx> > > > -- > Regards, > Atish Do -- Regards, Atish
