[PATCH] efi/arm/arm64: Allow SetVirtualAddressMap() to be omitted
Paolo Pisati
paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Wed Feb 20 14:51:34 UTC 2019
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
The UEFI spec revision 2.7 errata A section 8.4 has the following to
say about the virtual memory runtime services:
"This section contains function definitions for the virtual memory
support that may be optionally used by an operating system at runtime.
If an operating system chooses to make EFI runtime service calls in a
virtual addressing mode instead of the flat physical mode, then the
operating system must use the services in this section to switch the
EFI runtime services from flat physical addressing to virtual
addressing."
So it is pretty clear that calling SetVirtualAddressMap() is entirely
optional, and so there is no point in doing so unless it achieves
anything useful for us.
This is not the case for 64-bit ARM. The identity mapping used by the
firmware is arbitrarily converted into another permutation of userland
addresses (i.e., bits [63:48] cleared), and the runtime code could easily
deal with the original layout in exactly the same way as it deals with
the converted layout. However, due to constraints related to page size
differences if the OS is not running with 4k pages, and related to
systems that may expose the individual sections of PE/COFF runtime
modules as different memory regions, creating the virtual layout is a
bit fiddly, and requires us to sort the memory map and reason about
adjacent regions with identical memory types etc etc.
So the obvious fix is to stop calling SetVirtualAddressMap() altogether
on arm64 systems. However, to avoid surprises, which are notoriously
hard to diagnose when it comes to OS<->firmware interactions, let's
start by making it an opt-out feature, and implement support for the
'efi=novamap' kernel command line parameter on ARM and arm64 systems.
( Note that 32-bit ARM generally does require SetVirtualAddressMap() to be
used, given that the physical memory map and the kernel virtual address
map are not guaranteed to be non-overlapping like on arm64. However,
having support for efi=novamap,noruntime on 32-bit ARM, combined with
the recently proposed support for earlycon=efifb, is likely to be useful
to diagnose boot issues on such systems if they have no accessible serial
port. )
Tested-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo at codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson at linaro.org>
Tested-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt at codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya at intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi at vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190202094119.13230-8-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit 4e46c2a956215482418d7b315749fb1b6c6bc224)
Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati at canonical.com>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 5 +++++
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 10 ++++++++++
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c | 3 +++
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
index 01a9d78..3b1e1dc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ void efi_get_virtmap(efi_memory_desc_t *memory_map, unsigned long map_size,
paddr = in->phys_addr;
size = in->num_pages * EFI_PAGE_SIZE;
+ if (novamap()) {
+ in->virt_addr = in->phys_addr;
+ continue;
+ }
+
/*
* Make the mapping compatible with 64k pages: this allows
* a 4k page size kernel to kexec a 64k page size kernel and
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
index 50a9cab..39f87e6 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static unsigned long __chunk_size = EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE;
static int __section(.data) __nokaslr;
static int __section(.data) __quiet;
+static int __section(.data) __novamap;
int __pure nokaslr(void)
{
@@ -43,6 +44,10 @@ int __pure is_quiet(void)
{
return __quiet;
}
+int __pure novamap(void)
+{
+ return __novamap;
+}
#define EFI_MMAP_NR_SLACK_SLOTS 8
@@ -454,6 +459,11 @@ efi_status_t efi_parse_options(char const *cmdline)
__chunk_size = -1UL;
}
+ if (!strncmp(str, "novamap", 7)) {
+ str += strlen("novamap");
+ __novamap = 1;
+ }
+
/* Group words together, delimited by "," */
while (*str && *str != ' ' && *str != ',')
str++;
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
index f59564b..2adde22 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
extern int __pure nokaslr(void);
extern int __pure is_quiet(void);
+extern int __pure novamap(void);
#define pr_efi(sys_table, msg) do { \
if (!is_quiet()) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: "msg); \
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
index 8830fa6..94e7115 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
@@ -323,6 +323,9 @@ efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
if (status == EFI_SUCCESS) {
efi_set_virtual_address_map_t *svam;
+ if (novamap())
+ return EFI_SUCCESS;
+
/* Install the new virtual address map */
svam = sys_table->runtime->set_virtual_address_map;
status = svam(runtime_entry_count * desc_size, desc_size,
--
2.7.4
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