[PATCH v2 0/5] arm64 UEFI early FDT handling
Ard Biesheuvel
ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Wed Aug 26 01:06:26 PDT 2015
This is a followup to the "arm64: update/clarify/relax Image and FDT placement
rules" series I sent a while ago:
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/407148)
This has now been split in two series: this first series deals with the
early FDT handling, primarily in the context of UEFI, but not exclusively.
A number of minor issues exist in the early UEFI/FDT handling path, such as:
- when booting via UEFI, memreserve entries are removed from the device tree but
the /reserved-memory node is not
- memory nodes are removed from the device tree in a way that is not officially
supported by the libfdt API (i.e., you cannot delete nodes while traversing
the tree)
- removal of memory nodes may discard annotations (such as NUMA topology) that
should ideally be retained, or may corrupt the tree by discarding nodes
referenced by phandles.
Patch #1 introduces an arm64 specific version of early_init_dt_add_memory_arch()
so that we can modify it later to ignore DT memory nodes if booting via UEFI.
Patch #2 moves some UEFI+FDT init code around before making changes to it.
Patch #3 moves the UEFI initialization to before the early FDT scanning so we
know at that point whether we are booting via UEFI or not.
Patch #4 changes the UEFI init code so that memory nodes are simply ignored, so
that they don't have to be removed by the stub anymore.
Patch #5 does the same as #6, but for memreserves and the /reserved-memory
node.
Changes since v1:
- dropped first two patches, they have been merged into v4.2-rc1
- dropped last patch regarding FDT placement by the stub, this is not entirely
relevant to the primary issue targeted by this series
- rebased onto for-next/core (arm64) as of today
Ard Biesheuvel (5):
arm64: clone early_init_dt_add_memory_arch() to override default
efi: move FDT handling to separate object file
arm64/efi: move EFI init before early FDT processing
arm64/efi: ignore DT memory nodes instead of removing them
arm64/efi: ignore DT memreserve entries instead of removing them
arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 4 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 14 +---
arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c | 4 +-
arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 54 +++++++++++-
drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/firmware/efi/efi-fdt.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 86 --------------------
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c | 33 +-------
include/linux/efi.h | 3 +-
9 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-fdt.c
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