arm64/efi handling of persistent memory

[Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)]

Similar to the questions about the arm64 efi boot stub
handing persistent memory, some of the arm64 kernel code 
looks fishy.

In arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c:

static int __init is_normal_ram(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
{
        if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_WB)
                return 1;
        return 0;
}

static __init int is_reserve_region(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
{
        switch (md->type) {
        case EFI_LOADER_CODE:
        case EFI_LOADER_DATA:
        case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE:
        case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA:
        case EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY:
        case EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY:
                return 0;
        default:
                break;
        }
        return is_normal_ram(md);
}

static __init void reserve_regions(void)
{
...
                if (is_normal_ram(md))
                        early_init_dt_add_memory_arch(paddr, size);

                if (is_reserve_region(md)) {
                        memblock_reserve(paddr, size);
...

static bool __init efi_virtmap_init(void)
{
...
                if (!is_normal_ram(md))
                        prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE);
                else if (md->type == EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE ||
                         !PAGE_ALIGNED(md->phys_addr))
                        prot = PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
                else
                        prot = PAGE_KERNEL;

Concerns include:

1. is_normal_ram() will see the WB bit and return 1 regardless
of the type.  That seems similar to the arm EFI boot stub issue.
The three callers are shown above.

2. is_reserve_region() treating EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY the same
as EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY looks wrong.

3. We're contemplating working around the grub problem by
reporting EFI_RESERVED_MEMORY plus the NV attribute rather
than EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY.

If this is done, then is_reserve_region() will fall through
to is_normal_ram(), which will see the WB bit and return 1.
That seems backwards... but seems correct for persistent
memory, reporting it as a reserved region.  That might avoid the
the EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY handling problem (if the preceding
call to is_normal_ram() didn't already cause problems).

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Robert Elliott, HPE Persistent Memory