RE: [tip:efi/core] x86/efi: Unmap EFI boot services code/data regions from efi_pgd

["Prakhya, Sai Praneeth" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > > > Hi Thomas and Ingo,
> > > >
> > > > I recently noticed that the below commits [1] and [2] are broken
> > > > when kernel command line argument "efi=old_map" is passed. Sorry!
> > > > I missed to test this condition prior to sending these patches to mailing list.
> > > > I am working on a fix and will send it to mailing list as soon as it's ready.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Could you elaborate on the problem please?
> >
> > Sure! My bad..
> >
> > Little bit of history here:
> > Boris with this patch set [1] introduced statically mapping EFI
> > Runtime Services at -4G and also introduced "efi=old_map" to return to
> > previous EFI functionality which used ioremap and __va(pa).
> >
> > [3] and [4] are links to old_map_region()
> >
> > The commit 08cfb38f3ef4 ("x86/efi: Unmap EFI boot services code/data
> > regions from efi_pgd"), unmaps EFI boot services code/data regions
> > *only* from efi_pgd but efi=old_map maps EFI boot services code/data
> > regions into swapper_pgd. Also, efi=old_map  uses either
> > ioremap() or __va(md->phys_addr) to map EFI runtime/boot time services and
> doesn't use kernel_map_pages_in_pgd().
> >
> > So, we need a different unmapping routine to unmap EFI boot services
> > code/data regions from swapper_pgd if they were mapped using efi=old_map.
> >
> 
> For the short term, could we simply make your changes dependent on efi !=
> old_map? That gives us some time to fix the old_map case properly.

Yes, I think we could and it should work but I hesitated to propose it because 
(as you already noted) it's a short term fix and not the right fix.

Alternatively, we could also evaluate if we need to support efi=old_map case going further.
I thought dropping it would be a bad idea because it changes kernel user visible interface 
(because it's a kernel command line argument) and never brought it up.
Not sure what Thomas, Ingo or Linus might think about dropping a kernel command line 
argument.

Regards,
Sai