[patch 5/6] export efi runtime memory mapping to sysfs
Dave Young
dyoung at redhat.com
Tue Oct 29 01:34:27 EDT 2013
On 10/27/13 at 11:47am, Dave Young wrote:
> kexec kernel will need exactly same mapping for
> efi runtime memory ranges. Thus here export the
> runtime ranges mapping to sysfs, kexec-tools
> will assemble them and pass to 2nd kernel via
> setup_data.
>
> Introducing a new directly /sys/firmware/efi/efi-runtime-map
> Just like /sys/firmware/memmap. Containing below attribute
> in each file of that directory:
> attribute num_pages phys_addr type virt_addr
>
> It will not work for efi 32bit. Only x86_64 currently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 3
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 11 ++
> drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 10 +
> drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 1
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi-runtime-map.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 3
> 6 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Remind myself: add below to Documentaion in next version:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-efi-runtime-map
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