linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 05/10] x86, efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for EFI_MEMORY

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Message-ID: <20190910064826.GA23659@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 08:48:26 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com, x86@...nel.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        peterz@...radead.org, vishal.l.verma@...el.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/10] x86, efi: Add efi_fake_mem support for
 EFI_MEMORY_SP


* Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:

> Given that EFI_MEMORY_SP is platform BIOS policy descision for marking
> memory ranges as "reserved for a specific purpose" there will inevitably
> be scenarios where the BIOS omits the attribute in situations where it
> is desired. Unlike other attributes if the OS wants to reserve this
> memory from the kernel the reservation needs to happen early in init. So
> early, in fact, that it needs to happen before e820__memblock_setup()
> which is a pre-requisite for efi_fake_memmap() that wants to allocate
> memory for the updated table.
> 
> Introduce an x86 specific efi_fake_memmap_early() that can search for
> attempts to set EFI_MEMORY_SP via efi_fake_mem and update the e820 table
> accordingly.
> 
> The KASLR code that scans the command line looking for user-directed
> memory reservations also needs to be updated to consider
> "efi_fake_mem=nn@ss:0x40000" requests.
> 
> Cc: <x86@...nel.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>

A couple of these patches are touching EFI code, but only the first one 
carries a Reviewed-by from Ard.

Ard, are these patches and the whole series fine with you?

Thanks,

	Ingo