[PATCH v6 10/14] efi: only print saved efi runtime maps instead of all memmap ranges for kexec

[Dave Young]

On 12/19/13 at 04:41pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec, at 05:30:31PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > For kexec/kdump kernel efi runtime mappings are saved, printing original whole
> > memmap ranges does not make sense anymore. So introduce a new function to only
> > print runtime maps in case kexec/kdump kernel is used.
> > 
> > changelog:
> > Matt: use efi_setup instead of esdata
> >       share function print_efi_memmap for both normal and kexec boot.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Thinking about this a bit more, I'm not at all sure why this patch
> exists.
> 
> Why do we not want to print the entire memory map range like we did in
> the first kernel? The e820 map is printed exactly like it was in the
> first kernel, why should the EFI memmap be special?

Hi, Matt

Here is the memmap.map print result in kexec kernel (qemu + ovmf).
I think the memmap.map is not valid any more in kexec kernel, thus we
should print the saved runtime map.

[    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.31 by EDK II
[    0.000000] efi:  ACPI=0x1f9e0000  ACPI 2.0=0x1f9e0014 
[    0.000000] efi: mem00: type=33490747, attr=0x1ff073c, range=[0xffffffff8105542e-0xfffff80fd649d42e) (72057594029606228MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem01: type=33490747, attr=0x10756, range=[0xffffffff8105548e-0xfffff80fd650d48e) (72057594029606228MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem02: type=67410, attr=0x10758, range=[0xffffffff81055548-0xfffff80fd6630548) (72057594029606229MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem03: type=67416, attr=0x1ff0749, range=[0xffffffff810556c2-0xfffff80fd67246c2) (72057594029606230MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem04: type=67416, attr=0x10756, range=[0xffffffff810557d1-0xfffff80fd685d7d1) (72057594029606232MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem05: type=67410, attr=0x10756, range=[0xffffffff8105584a-0xfffff80fd68b684a) (72057594029606232MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem06: type=67415, attr=0x10758, range=[0xffffffff810558b7-0xfffff80fd69168b7) (72057594029606232MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem07: type=67417, attr=0x10758, range=[0xffffffff810558fa-0xfffff80fd697c8fa) (72057594029606233MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem08: type=67415, attr=0x10758, range=[0xffffffff810559c2-0xfffff80fd6a6b9c2) (72057594029606234MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem09: type=67417, attr=0x10754, range=[0xffffffff81055a4f-0xfffff80fd6b2fa4f) (72057594029606234MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem10: type=33490778, attr=0x10753, range=[0xffffffff81055b66-0xfffff80fd6c49b66) (72057594029606235MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem11: type=67417, attr=0x10753, range=[0xffffffff81055c75-0xfffff80fd6d0dc75) (72057594029606236MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem12: type=67411, attr=0x10759, range=[0xffffffff81055dc2-0xfffff80fd6e38dc2) (72057594029606237MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem13: type=33490773, attr=0x1ff075a, range=[0xffffffff81055e3e-0xfffff80fd6ea1e3e) (72057594029606238MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem14: type=67409, attr=0x10752, range=[0xffffffff81056053-0xfffff80fd7163053) (72057594029606241MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem15: type=67409, attr=0x1ff0747, range=[0xffffffff8105612b-0xfffff80fd719012b) (72057594029606241MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem16: type=67409, attr=0x10751, range=[0xffffffff8105628c-0xfffff80fd73a828c) (72057594029606243MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem17: type=67410, attr=0x10751, range=[0xffffffff81056441-0xfffff80fd74ff441) (72057594029606244MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem18: type=67410, attr=0x10752, range=[0xffffffff8105652a-0xfffff80fd761152a) (72057594029606245MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem19: type=33490748, attr=0x1072c, range=[0xffffffff810565e6-0xfffff80fd79dc5e6) (72057594029606249MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem20: type=67409, attr=0x10751, range=[0xffffffff81056a25-0xfffff80fd7ae0a25) (72057594029606250MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem21: type=67372, attr=0x1ff073b, range=[0xffffffff8105745c-0xfffff80fd84bc45c) (72057594029606260MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem22: type=33490720, attr=0x1ff0744, range=[0xffffffff81057a3a-0xfffff80fd95d8a3a) (72057594029606277MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem23: type=33490757, attr=0x1ff073f, range=[0xffffffff81058659-0xfffff80fd9734659) (72057594029606278MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem24: type=33490752, attr=0x1ff074b, range=[0xffffffff81058867-0xfffff80fd98e1867) (72057594029606280MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem25: type=67410, attr=0x10751, range=[0xffffffff810589d9-0xfffff80fd9ac79d9) (72057594029606282MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem26: type=67414, attr=0x10753, range=[0xffffffff81058b4c-0xfffff80fd9c42b4c) (72057594029606283MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem27: type=67416, attr=0x1072c, range=[0xffffffff81058c85-0xfffff80fd9dffc85) (72057594029606285MB)
[    0.000000] efi: mem28: type=67374, attr=0x1072d, range=[0xffffffff81058e41-0xfffff80fd9eb0e41) (72057594029606286MB)


> 
> -- 
> Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center