[ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 9a9ecddd4f9859f47f6e479a3411b6a21165845a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:55:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI
 init

commit 785107923a83d8456bbd8564e288a24d84109a46 upstream.

Some new ACPI 5.0 tables reference resources stored in boot services
memory, so keep that memory around until we have ACPI and can extract
data from it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baaa6d44bdc4eb0c58e5d1b4ccd2c729f854ac55.1348876882.git.josh@joshtriplett.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++-------------
 include/linux/efi.h         |    5 +++++
 init/main.c                 |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index f55a4ce..b3dbbdb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -419,10 +419,21 @@ void __init efi_reserve_boot_services(void)
 	}
 }

-static void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
+static void __init efi_unmap_memmap(void)
+{
+	if (memmap.map) {
+		early_iounmap(memmap.map, memmap.nr_map * memmap.desc_size);
+		memmap.map = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
 {
 	void *p;

+	if (!efi_native)
+		return;
+
 	for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
 		efi_memory_desc_t *md = p;
 		unsigned long long start = md->phys_addr;
@@ -438,6 +449,8 @@ static void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)

 		free_bootmem_late(start, size);
 	}
+
+	efi_unmap_memmap();
 }

 static int __init efi_systab_init(void *phys)
@@ -787,8 +800,10 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
 	 * non-native EFI
 	 */

-	if (!efi_native)
-		goto out;
+	if (!efi_native) {
+		efi_unmap_memmap();
+		return;
+	}

 	/* Merge contiguous regions of the same type and attribute */
 	for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
@@ -878,13 +893,6 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
 	}

 	/*
-	 * Thankfully, it does seem that no runtime services other than
-	 * SetVirtualAddressMap() will touch boot services code, so we can
-	 * get rid of it all at this point
-	 */
-	efi_free_boot_services();
-
-	/*
 	 * Now that EFI is in virtual mode, update the function
 	 * pointers in the runtime service table to the new virtual addresses.
 	 *
@@ -907,9 +915,6 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
 	if (__supported_pte_mask & _PAGE_NX)
 		runtime_code_page_mkexec();

-out:
-	early_iounmap(memmap.map, memmap.nr_map * memmap.desc_size);
-	memmap.map = NULL;
 	kfree(new_memmap);
 }

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index ec45ccd..5782114 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -496,6 +496,11 @@ extern void efi_map_pal_code (void);
 extern void efi_memmap_walk (efi_freemem_callback_t callback, void *arg);
 extern void efi_gettimeofday (struct timespec *ts);
 extern void efi_enter_virtual_mode (void);	/* switch EFI to virtual mode, if possible */
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86
+extern void efi_free_boot_services(void);
+#else
+static inline void efi_free_boot_services(void) {}
+#endif
 extern u64 efi_get_iobase (void);
 extern u32 efi_mem_type (unsigned long phys_addr);
 extern u64 efi_mem_attributes (unsigned long phys_addr);
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index b5cc0a7..593c8b6 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -630,6 +630,9 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
 	sfi_init_late();

+	if (efi_enabled)
+		efi_free_boot_services();
+
 	ftrace_init();

 	/* Do the rest non-__init'ed, we're now alive */
--
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