[PATCH v3 05/11] arm64/efi: adapt to relaxed FDT placement requirements

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Apr 13 09:25:55 PDT 2015


On 13 April 2015 at 18:20, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> With the relaxed FDT placement requirements in place, we can change
>> the allocation strategy used by the stub to put the FDT image higher
>> up in memory. At the same time, reduce the minimal alignment to 8 bytes,
>> and impose a 2 MB size limit, as per the new requirements.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h            |  8 +++-----
>>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c |  5 ++---
>>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h  |  1 -
>>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c      | 23 +++++++++++++----------
>>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>> index ef572206f1c3..bd513dd663b9 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h
>> @@ -39,12 +39,10 @@ extern void efi_init(void);
>>  /* arch specific definitions used by the stub code */
>>
>>  /*
>> - * AArch64 requires the DTB to be 8-byte aligned in the first 512MiB from
>> - * start of kernel and may not cross a 2MiB boundary. We set alignment to
>> - * 2MiB so we know it won't cross a 2MiB boundary.
>> + * AArch64 requires the DTB to be 8-byte aligned and not exceed 2MiB in size.
>>   */
>> -#define EFI_FDT_ALIGN        SZ_2M   /* used by allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot() */
>> -#define MAX_FDT_OFFSET       SZ_512M
>> +#define EFI_FDT_ALIGN                8
>> +#define EFI_FDT_MAX_SIZE     SZ_2M
>
> Is there any way we can organise things so we can share the kernel's
> MAX_FDT_SIZE definition, so as to keep the stub and kernel in sync?
>

I'll put MAX_FDT_SIZE in asm/page.h (unless you can propose a better place)
That way, both fixmap.h and efi.h can refer to it.


> Otherwise, the patch looks good to me.
>
> Mark.
>
>>
>>  #define efi_call_early(f, ...) sys_table_arg->boottime->f(__VA_ARGS__)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
>> index dcae482a9a17..f54c76a4fd32 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
>> @@ -269,9 +269,8 @@ unsigned long efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>
>>       new_fdt_addr = fdt_addr;
>>       status = allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(sys_table, handle,
>> -                             &new_fdt_addr, dram_base + MAX_FDT_OFFSET,
>> -                             initrd_addr, initrd_size, cmdline_ptr,
>> -                             fdt_addr, fdt_size);
>> +                             &new_fdt_addr, initrd_addr, initrd_size,
>> +                             cmdline_ptr, fdt_addr, fdt_size);
>>
>>       /*
>>        * If all went well, we need to return the FDT address to the
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
>> index 47437b16b186..c8e096094ea9 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h
>> @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ efi_status_t update_fdt(efi_system_table_t *sys_table, void *orig_fdt,
>>  efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>                                           void *handle,
>>                                           unsigned long *new_fdt_addr,
>> -                                         unsigned long max_addr,
>>                                           u64 initrd_addr, u64 initrd_size,
>>                                           char *cmdline_ptr,
>>                                           unsigned long fdt_addr,
>> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
>> index 91da56c4fd54..ace5ed70a88e 100644
>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
>> @@ -165,10 +165,6 @@ fdt_set_fail:
>>       return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
>>  }
>>
>> -#ifndef EFI_FDT_ALIGN
>> -#define EFI_FDT_ALIGN EFI_PAGE_SIZE
>> -#endif
>> -
>>  /*
>>   * Allocate memory for a new FDT, then add EFI, commandline, and
>>   * initrd related fields to the FDT.  This routine increases the
>> @@ -186,7 +182,6 @@ fdt_set_fail:
>>  efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>                                           void *handle,
>>                                           unsigned long *new_fdt_addr,
>> -                                         unsigned long max_addr,
>>                                           u64 initrd_addr, u64 initrd_size,
>>                                           char *cmdline_ptr,
>>                                           unsigned long fdt_addr,
>> @@ -197,6 +192,7 @@ efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>       unsigned long mmap_key;
>>       efi_memory_desc_t *memory_map, *runtime_map;
>>       unsigned long new_fdt_size;
>> +     void *fdt_alloc;
>>       efi_status_t status;
>>       int runtime_entry_count = 0;
>>
>> @@ -221,14 +217,21 @@ efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>        * will allocate a bigger buffer if this ends up being too
>>        * small, so a rough guess is OK here.
>>        */
>> -     new_fdt_size = fdt_size + EFI_PAGE_SIZE;
>> +     new_fdt_size = fdt_size + EFI_PAGE_SIZE + EFI_FDT_ALIGN;
>>       while (1) {
>> -             status = efi_high_alloc(sys_table, new_fdt_size, EFI_FDT_ALIGN,
>> -                                     new_fdt_addr, max_addr);
>> +             if (new_fdt_size > EFI_FDT_MAX_SIZE) {
>> +                     pr_efi_err(sys_table, "FDT size exceeds EFI_FDT_MAX_SIZE.\n");
>> +                     goto fail;
>> +             }
>> +             status = sys_table->boottime->allocate_pool(EFI_LOADER_DATA,
>> +                                                         new_fdt_size,
>> +                                                         &fdt_alloc);
>>               if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
>>                       pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Unable to allocate memory for new device tree.\n");
>>                       goto fail;
>>               }
>> +             *new_fdt_addr = round_up((unsigned long)fdt_alloc,
>> +                                      EFI_FDT_ALIGN);
>>
>>               /*
>>                * Now that we have done our final memory allocation (and free)
>> @@ -258,7 +261,7 @@ efi_status_t allocate_new_fdt_and_exit_boot(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>>                        * to get new one that reflects the free/alloc we do
>>                        * on the device tree buffer.
>>                        */
>> -                     efi_free(sys_table, new_fdt_size, *new_fdt_addr);
>> +                     sys_table->boottime->free_pool(&fdt_alloc);
>>                       sys_table->boottime->free_pool(memory_map);
>>                       new_fdt_size += EFI_PAGE_SIZE;
>>               } else {
>> @@ -316,7 +319,7 @@ fail_free_mmap:
>>       sys_table->boottime->free_pool(memory_map);
>>
>>  fail_free_new_fdt:
>> -     efi_free(sys_table, new_fdt_size, *new_fdt_addr);
>> +     sys_table->boottime->free_pool(&fdt_alloc);
>>
>>  fail:
>>       sys_table->boottime->free_pool(runtime_map);
>> --
>> 1.8.3.2
>>



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