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

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Message-ID: <851fc09e0810050156y114007e4hbdf3e6c5562004d3@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:56:32 +0800
From:	"huang ying" <huang.ying.caritas@...il.com>
To:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Huang Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: make 64bit efi to use ioremap_cache for efi_ioremap

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.

Best Regards,
Huang Ying
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