[PATCH 1/8] arm64/efi: use UEFI memory map unconditionally if available

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Jan 9 07:41:40 PST 2015


On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 07:08:35PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On systems that boot via UEFI, all memory nodes are deleted from the
> device tree, and instead, the size and location of system RAM is derived
> from the UEFI memory map. This is handled by reserve_regions, which not only
> reserves parts of memory that UEFI declares as reserved, but also installs
> the memblocks that cover the remaining usable memory.
> 
> Currently, reserve_regions() is only called if uefi_init() succeeds.
> However, it does not actually depend on anything that uefi_init() does,
> and not calling reserve_regions() results in a broken boot, so it is
> better to just call it unconditionally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> index d7d2e818c856..d2f483a7cffe 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> @@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
>  	memmap.desc_size = params.desc_size;
>  	memmap.desc_version = params.desc_ver;
>  
> -	if (uefi_init() < 0)
> -		return;
> +	WARN_ON(uefi_init() < 0);
>  
>  	reserve_regions();
>  }
> @@ -218,15 +217,13 @@ static int __init arm64_enter_virtual_mode(void)
>  {
>  	u64 mapsize;
>  
> -	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)) {
> -		pr_info("EFI services will not be available.\n");
> -		return -1;
> -	}
> +	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP))
> +		return 0;
>  
>  	mapsize = memmap.map_end - memmap.map;
>  	early_memunmap(memmap.map, mapsize);
>  
> -	if (efi_runtime_disabled()) {
> +	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT) || efi_runtime_disabled()) {
>  		pr_info("EFI runtime services will be disabled.\n");
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 
> 



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