[PATCH 4/5] arm64/efi: ensure that Image does not cross a 512 MB boundary

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Tue Mar 3 03:03:49 PST 2015


Update the Image placement logic used by the stub to make absolutely
sure that Image is placed in such a way that the early init code will
always be able to map it. This means the entire static memory footprint
of Image should be inside the same naturally aligned 512 MB region.

First of all, the preferred offset of dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET is only
suitable if it doesn't result in the Image crossing a 512 MB
alignment boundary, which could be the case if dram_base itself
is close to the end of a naturally aligned 512 MB region.

Also, when moving the kernel Image, we need to verify that the new
destination region does not cross a 512 MB alignment boundary either.
If that is the case, we retry the allocation with the alignment
chosen such that the resulting region will always be suitable.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
index f5374065ad53..5f8175979be8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
@@ -22,14 +22,40 @@ efi_status_t __init handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
 					efi_loaded_image_t *image)
 {
 	efi_status_t status;
-	unsigned long kernel_size, kernel_memsize = 0;
+	unsigned long kernel_size, kernel_memsize;
+	unsigned long preferred_offset;
 
-	/* Relocate the image, if required. */
 	kernel_size = _edata - _text;
-	if (*image_addr != (dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET)) {
-		kernel_memsize = kernel_size + (_end - _edata);
-		status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table, kernel_memsize + TEXT_OFFSET,
-				       SZ_2M, reserve_addr);
+	kernel_memsize = kernel_size + (_end - _edata);
+
+	/*
+	 * The kernel Image should be located as close as possible to the base
+	 * of system RAM, but must not cross a 512 MB alignment boundary.
+	 */
+	preferred_offset = dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET;
+	if ((preferred_offset & (SZ_512M - 1)) + kernel_memsize > SZ_512M)
+		preferred_offset = round_up(dram_base, SZ_512M) + TEXT_OFFSET;
+
+	if (*image_addr != preferred_offset) {
+		unsigned long alloc_size = kernel_memsize + TEXT_OFFSET;
+		unsigned long alloc_align = SZ_2M;
+
+again:
+		status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table, alloc_size, alloc_align,
+				       reserve_addr);
+
+		/*
+		 * Check whether the new allocation crosses a 512 MB alignment
+		 * boundary. If so, retry with the alignment set to a power of
+		 * two upper bound of the allocation size. That is guaranteed
+		 * to produce a suitable allocation, but may waste more memory.
+		 */
+		if (status == EFI_SUCCESS &&
+		    ((*reserve_addr & (SZ_512M - 1)) + alloc_size) > SZ_512M) {
+			efi_free(sys_table, alloc_size, *reserve_addr);
+			alloc_align = roundup_pow_of_two(alloc_size);
+			goto again;
+		}
 		if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
 			pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Failed to relocate kernel\n");
 			return status;
-- 
1.8.3.2




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