[PATCH v2 12/15] arm64: drtm: Update the linker script for EFI_STUB_DRTM

Yeoreum Yun yeoreum.yun at arm.com
Tue Oct 20 15:49:45 PDT 2026


Hi,

> Implement the link layout that CONFIG_EFI_STUB_DRTM requires. This maps
> vmlinux into the Dynamic Launch Measured Environment (DLME) defined by the
> spec.
> 
> Broadly, Image fits into the spec defined DLME region memory layout in
> this order:
>  - Program headers and padding up to _stext. EFI can write to these while
>    loading the stub so they do not have a stable measurement.
>  - All the boot-time immutable data, including .text, .data, .init
>    and so on (measured)
>  - Data written by the EFI stub
>  - .bss, padding and other 0'd data up to _end
>  - The "DLME Data" written by the launch process. This is a datastructure
>    the post launch kernel will parse to get trusted information about th
>    launch.
> 
> New linker symbols are added to mark these areas and their offsets are
> placed into the efi_image_info so both stubs can get them.
> 
> The spec's design of the DLME was intended to fit a typical OS image like
> this, with two areas that are unmeasured and an inner measured region.
> 
> Linux zeroes the unmeasured area of .bss/etc after the DRTM launch so it
> also reaches a known value. The DLME data is written by the launch and is
> trusted. The EFI stub data is either ignored or will have to be sanitized.
> 
> Add a section for the unmeasured data before the PECOFF padding. This is
> an allocated section so it is zero'd in the image and is only 64 bytes in
> my builds. There is a high chance it gets absorbed into the padding
> region.
> 
> The post-launch kernel will have to reserve the "DLME Data" before
> starting the allocator since it falls outside the linker map. This will
> happen in the first series to consume this data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h  |  8 +++++
>  arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
> index b18ce23a2cba7f..36afe95ffa7544 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/image.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,11 @@
>  
>  #define ARM64_IMAGE_MAGIC	"ARM\x64"
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +#define EFI_IMAGE_INFO_SIZE	40

Small nit. I know according to #13, This should be 40 with drtm_entry
and arm64_drtm_handoff. but in this patch, should EFI_IMAGE_INFO_SIZE
be 24 and be change to 40 at #13?

> +#else
>  #define EFI_IMAGE_INFO_SIZE	8
> +#endif
>  
>  #define ARM64_IMAGE_FLAG_BE_SHIFT		0
>  #define ARM64_IMAGE_FLAG_PAGE_SIZE_SHIFT	(ARM64_IMAGE_FLAG_BE_SHIFT + 1)
> @@ -62,6 +66,10 @@ struct arm64_image_header {
>   */
>  struct efi_image_info {
>  	u64 code_size;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +	u64 drtm_measured_start;
> +	u64 dlme_measured_size;
> +#endif
>  };
>  static_assert(sizeof(struct efi_image_info) == EFI_IMAGE_INFO_SIZE);
>  
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> index 8305b47995954b..5c14decf0dd4d3 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -190,10 +190,24 @@ SECTIONS
>  
>  	.head.text : {
>  		_text = .;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +		/* DEN0113 R314010: The DLME region must start at a 4KB aligned address. */
> +		ASSERT((_text & (SZ_4K - 1)) == 0,
> +		       "DLME region is not 4 KiB aligned");
> +#endif
>  		HEAD_TEXT
>  	}
>  	.text : ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN) {	/* Real text segment		*/
>  		_stext = .;		/* Text and read-only data	*/
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +		__drtm_measured_start = _stext;
> +		/*
> +		 * DEN0113 R314020: The DLME image must start at a 4KB aligned
> +		 * address. This happens always because SEGMENT_ALIGN is big.
> +		 */
> +		ASSERT((__drtm_measured_start & (SZ_4K - 1)) == 0,
> +		       "DLME measured start is not 4 KiB aligned");
> +#endif
>  			IRQENTRY_TEXT
>  			SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT
>  			ENTRY_TEXT
> @@ -285,6 +299,11 @@ SECTIONS
>  		EFI_IMAGE_INFO(
>  			/* code_size */
>  			EFI_IMAGE_INFO_OFFSET(__inittext_end);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +			EFI_IMAGE_INFO_OFFSET(__drtm_measured_start);
> +			/* dlme_measured_size */
> +			EFI_IMAGE_INFO_ENTRY(__drtm_measured_end - __drtm_measured_start);
> +#endif
>  		)
>  	}
>  	.exit.data : {
> @@ -348,6 +367,44 @@ SECTIONS
>  		__mmuoff_data_end = .;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * DRTM layout for DEN0113 as it relates to the link layout, refer
> +	 * to Figure 8 in 1.4b. In that language:
> +	 *  "Free Space 1" is the PE header and padding between _text and
> +	 *        __drtm_measured_start (_stext)
> +	 *  "DLME Image" is from __drtm_measured_start to __drtm_measured_end
> +	 *  "Free Space 2" is kernel efi data/bss/etc till __drtm_dlme_start
> +	 *  "DLME Data" is a memory sized "Minimum Size of DLME data"
> +	 *        and is retained after boot for use by the kernel
> +	 *
> +	 * Thus, the DRTM_PARAMETERS follow from that:
> +	 *   DLME Region Address = _text's PA ie the start of Image
> +	 *   DLME Region Size = DLME Data Offset + "Minimum Size of DLME data"
> +	 *   DLME Image Start Offset = __drtm_measured_start - _text
> +	 *   DLME Image Size = __drtm_measured_end - __drtm_measured_start
> +	 *   DLME Data Offset = __drtm_dlme_start - _text
> +	 *   Normal World DCE region address = PA of __drtm_dlme_start +
> +	 *                                  "Minimum Size of DLME data"
> +	 *
> +	 * The EFI stub will place any optional "Normal World DCE" region
> +	 * immediately after the "DLME data". It is only used internally by the
> +	 * FW during the launch and has no effect on the link layout.
> +	 */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +	__drtm_measured_end = .;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Writable EFI stub state. When DRTM is being used the stub's mutable
> +	 * data cannot reside in the normal .init.data because that section
> +	 * will be measured.
> +	 */
> +	.unmeasured.data : {
> +		*(.unmeasured.data)
> +		*(.init.efidata .init.efidata.*)
> +		*(.init.efibss .init.efibss.*)
> +	}
> +#endif
> +
>  	PECOFF_EDATA_PADDING
>  	__pecoff_data_rawsize = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin);
>  	_edata = .;
> @@ -370,10 +427,15 @@ SECTIONS
>  
>  	. += SZ_4K;		/* stack for the early C runtime */
>  	early_init_stack = .;
> -
>  	. = ALIGN(SEGMENT_ALIGN);
>  	__pecoff_data_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __initdata_begin);
>  	_end = .;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_DRTM
> +	/* DEN0113 R314030: The DLME data must start at a 4KB aligned address. */
> +	__drtm_dlme_start = .;
> +	ASSERT((__drtm_dlme_start & (SZ_4K - 1)) == 0,
> +	       "DLME data is not 4 KiB aligned")
> +#endif
>  	__pi__end = .;
>  
>  	STABS_DEBUG
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 
> 

-- 
Sincerely,
Yeoreum Yun



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