- Jun 06, 2011
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Matthew Garrett authored
The spec says this takes uint32 for attributes, not uintn. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307388985-7852-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- May 26, 2011
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Matthew Garrett authored
UEFI stands for "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", where "Firmware" is an ancient African word meaning "Why do something right when you can do it so wrong that children will weep and brave adults will cower before you", and "UEI" is Celtic for "We missed DOS so we burned it into your ROMs". The UEFI specification provides for runtime services (ie, another way for the operating system to be forced to depend on the firmware) and we rely on these for certain trivial tasks such as setting up the bootloader. But some hardware fails to work if we attempt to use these runtime services from physical mode, and so we have to switch into virtual mode. So far so dreadful. The specification makes it clear that the operating system is free to do whatever it wants with boot services code after ExitBootServices() has been called. SetVirtualAddressMap() can't be called until ExitBootServices() has been. So, obviously, a whole bunch of EFI implementations call into boot services code when we do that. Since we've been charmingly naive and trusted that the specification may be somehow relevant to the real world, we've already stuffed a picture of a penguin or something in that address space. And just to make things more entertaining, we've also marked it non-executable. This patch allocates the boot services regions during EFI init and makes sure that they're executable. Then, after SetVirtualAddressMap(), it discards them and everyone lives happily ever after. Except for the ones who have to work on EFI, who live sad lives haunted by the knowledge that someone's eventually going to write yet another firmware specification. [ hpa: adding this to urgent with a stable tag since it fixes currently-broken hardware. However, I do not know what the dependencies are and so I do not know which -stable versions this may be a candidate for. ] Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306331593-28715-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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- May 09, 2011
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Matthew Garrett authored
It's possible for init_memory_mapping() to fail to map the entire region if it crosses a boundary, so ensure that we complete the mapping. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-5-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Matthew Garrett authored
Experimentation with various EFI implementations has shown that functions outside runtime services will still update their pointers if SetVirtualAddressMap() is called with memory descriptors outside the runtime area. This is obviously insane, and therefore is unsurprising. Evidence from instrumenting another EFI implementation suggests that it only passes the set of descriptors covering runtime regions, so let's avoid any problems by doing the same. Runtime descriptors are copied to a separate memory map, and only that map is passed back to the firmware. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-4-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Matthew Garrett authored
Some firmware implementations assume that physically contiguous regions will be contiguous in virtual address space. This assumption is, obviously, entirely unjustifiable. Said firmware implementations lack the good grace to handle their failings in a measured and reasonable manner, instead tending to shit all over address space and oopsing the kernel. In an ideal universe these firmware implementations would simultaneously catch fire and cease to be a problem, but since some of them are present in attractively thin and shiny metal devices vanity wins out and some poor developer spends an extended period of time surrounded by a growing array of empty bottles until the underlying reason becomes apparent. Said developer presents this patch, which simply merges adjacent regions if they happen to be contiguous and have the same EFI memory type and caching attributes. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-3-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Matthew Garrett authored
The core EFI code and 64-bit EFI code currently have independent implementations of code for setting memory regions as executable or not. Let's consolidate them. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-2-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Matthew Garrett authored
The spec says that SetVirtualAddressMap doesn't work once you're in virtual mode, so there's no point in having infrastructure for calling it from there. Signed-off-by:
Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304623186-18261-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- Oct 27, 2010
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
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