This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/platform/UV: Fix support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates
to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-platform-uv-fix-support-for-efi_old_memmap-after-bios-callback-updates.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From caef78b6cdeddf4ad364f95910bba6b43b8eb9bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:48:51 -0500
Subject: x86/platform/UV: Fix support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates
From: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
commit caef78b6cdeddf4ad364f95910bba6b43b8eb9bf upstream.
Some time ago, we brought our UV BIOS callback code up to speed with the
new EFI memory mapping scheme, in commit:
d1be84a232e3 ("x86/uv: Update uv_bios_call() to use efi_call_virt_pointer()")
By leveraging some changes that I made to a few of the EFI runtime
callback mechanisms, in commit:
80e75596079f ("efi: Convert efi_call_virt() to efi_call_virt_pointer()")
This got everything running smoothly on UV, with the new EFI mapping
code. However, this left one, small loose end, in that EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
(a.k.a. efi=old_map) will no longer work on UV, on kernels that include
the aforementioned changes.
At the time this was not a major issue (in fact, it still really isn't),
but there's no reason that EFI_OLD_MEMMAP *shouldn't* work on our
systems. This commit adds a check into uv_bios_call(), to see if we have
the EFI_OLD_MEMMAP bit set in efi.flags. If it is set, we fall back to
using our old callback method, which uses efi_call() directly on the __va()
of our function pointer.
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476928131-170101-1-git-send-email-athorlton@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c
@@ -40,7 +40,15 @@ s64 uv_bios_call(enum uv_bios_cmd which,
*/
return BIOS_STATUS_UNIMPLEMENTED;
- ret = efi_call_virt_pointer(tab, function, (u64)which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
+ /*
+ * If EFI_OLD_MEMMAP is set, we need to fall back to using our old EFI
+ * callback method, which uses efi_call() directly, with the kernel page tables:
+ */
+ if (unlikely(test_bit(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP, &efi.flags)))
+ ret = efi_call((void *)__va(tab->function), (u64)which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
+ else
+ ret = efi_call_virt_pointer(tab, function, (u64)which, a1, a2, a3, a4, a5);
+
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_bios_call);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from athorlton@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/x86-platform-uv-fix-support-for-efi_old_memmap-after-bios-callback-updates.patch
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