[PATCH 0/5] memory attribute table support

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Feb 22 06:25:53 PST 2016


This implements ARM/arm64 support for dealing with the UEFI memory attribute
table, which allows the OS to map UEFI Runtime Services regions with stricter
permissions.

I have tried to implement the early discovery and validation of the table
as generically as possible. I think it should be reusable on x86 as well,
but I haven't tried myself. Note that this also depends on the way we
deal with the reservation of BootServicesData regions goind forward.

Note that for 32-bit ARM, this depends on [1], which addresses an issue
with memremap() on that architecture

Patches #1 and #2 implement support for the EFI_MEMORY_RO and EFI_MEMORY_XP
attributes, and as it turns out, this code supports both the (obsolete)
PropertiesTable and the new Memory Attributes table, so I moved them to the
beginning of the series.

Patch #3 adds the GUID and type definitions for the memory attributes table.

Patch #4 implements the generic handling of the table.

Patch #5 wires it up for ARM and arm64.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2157907

Ard Biesheuvel (5):
  ARM: efi: apply strict permissons for UEFI Runtime Services regions
  arm64: efi: apply strict permissons for UEFI Runtime Services regions
  efi: add support for the EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE config table
  efi: implement generic support for the Memory Attributes table
  arm*: efi: take the Memory Attributes table into account

 arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h         |   1 +
 arch/arm/kernel/efi.c              |  41 ++++++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h       |   2 +
 arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c            |  27 +++-
 drivers/firmware/efi/Makefile      |   2 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c    |   1 +
 drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c |   3 +
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c         |   2 +
 drivers/firmware/efi/memattr.c     | 137 ++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/efi.h                |  19 +++
 10 files changed, 229 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/firmware/efi/memattr.c

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