linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: make 64bit efi to use ioremap_cache for efi

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:50:27 +0800
From:	Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: make 64bit efi to use ioremap_cache for
	efi_ioremap

On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 11:04 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:56 AM, huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 2:35 AM, huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Using __va and efi_ioremap() here is to make EFI support compatible
> >>> with kexec. Because EFI provide only efi_enter_virtual_mode(), no
> >>> efi_leave_virtual_mode(), we should make EFI runtime memory area
> >>> mapped to same virtual memory area in original kernel and kexeced
> >>> kernel, so that the EFI runtime services can be used in kexeced
> >>> kernel.
> >>
> >> so need to make efi range all under direct-mapping like E820-RAM?
> >
> > Some EFI runtime range is just some RAM area used by EFI runtime
> > services, they can be direct-mapped. Some EFI runtime range may be IO
> > MEM range used by EFI runtime services, it is possible that these IO
> > MEM range can not be direct-mapped. So I implement efi_ioremap() to
> > deal with them.
> >
> 
> i'm confused.
> 
> so
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
> @@ -475,10 +475,7 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
>                size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
>                end = md->phys_addr + size;
> 
> -               if (PFN_UP(end) <= max_low_pfn_mapped)
> -                       va = __va(md->phys_addr);
> -               else
> -                       va = efi_ioremap(md->phys_addr, size);
> +               va = efi_ioremap(md->phys_addr, size);
> 
>                md->virt_addr = (u64) (unsigned long) va;
> should be ok.

I think __va() and efi_ioremap() should be used.

> then how about use ioremap directly to replace fixed mapping in 64bit
> with efi_ioremap?

Because for kexec to work, EFI runtime memory area should be mapped to
same virtual address across reboot.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying


Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (198 bytes)