[PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

[Dave Young]

On 10/14/13 at 11:57am, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:14:39AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > CCing Peter Jones .., Peter, any idea about the grub related problem?
> 
> What grub problem?  As Matt was saying, grub2 isn't loading it as
> EfiBootServicesCode/Data.  grub2 is loading it as EfiLoaderData .

Today I did printk debug, it is in fact an off by one bug:
text start: 1000000 md start: 800000 md size: 800000

Below is the code:
                if ((start+size >= __pa_symbol(_text)
                                && start <= __pa_symbol(_end)) ||
                        !e820_all_mapped(start, start+size, E820_RAM) ||
                        memblock_is_region_reserved(start, size)) {
                        /* Could not reserve, skip it */

Will post a patch to fix it.

> 
> > 
> > On 10/11/13 at 09:42am, Dave Young wrote:
> > > Matt,
> > > 
> > > The kernel I referring is the boot kernel aka the 1st kernel,
> > > the boot loader is grub2 from Fedora 19.
> > > 
> > > [sorry for top reply because of using webmail]
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Matt Fleming" <matt at console-pimps.org>
> > > To: "Dave Young" <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp at alien8.de>, "X86 ML" <x86 at kernel.org>, "LKML" <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>, "Borislav Petkov" <bp at suse.de>, "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>, "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com>, "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal at redhat.com>, linux-efi at vger.kernel.org, fwts-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 6:27:06 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 11 Oct, at 02:24:37PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > For the boot efi_reserve_boot_services code, it's mainly for the
> > > > SetVirtualAddressMap callback use, so boot regions should not be reused
> > > > before SetVirtualAddressMap, but the overlapping happens before the
> > > > efi_reserve_boot_services, isn't it a problem?
> > > 
> > > Hang on, which kernel are you referring to here? The boot kernel or the
> > > kexec'd kernel? I thought you were saying you noticed the overlap when
> > > running in the second (kexec'd) kernel?
> > > 
> > > The only reason that you would see this overlap in the first (boot)
> > > kernel is if the bootloader messed up and allocated the kernel text as
> > > EfiBootServicesCode/Data. I'd like to believe no bootloaders are still
> > > doing that.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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>         Peter