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  2. May 26, 2011
    • Matthew Garrett's avatar
      x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode · 916f676f
      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: default avatarMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306331593-28715-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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