On 30.09.2022 01:02, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> Memory of type EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY, EFI_LOADER_CODE, EFI_LOADER_DATA,
> EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE, and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA may be clobbered by
> Xen before Linux gets to start using it. Therefore, Linux under Xen
> must not use EFI tables from such memory. Most of the remaining EFI
> memory types are not suitable for EFI tables, leaving only
> EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY, EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA, and
> EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE. When running under Xen, Linux should only
> use tables that are located in one of these types of memory.
>
> This patch ensures this, and also adds a function
> (xen_config_table_memory_region_max()) that will be used later to
> replace the usage of the EFI memory map in esrt.c when running under
> Xen. This function can also be used in mokvar-table.c and efi-bgrt.c,
> but I have not implemented this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In Xen we don't clobber EfiBootServices{Code,Data} when xen.efi was passed
"-mapbs". Should we perhaps extend the interface such that Dom0 can then
also use tables located in such regions, perhaps by faking
EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME in the attributes returned by XEN_FW_EFI_MEM_INFO?
Jan
