Re: [PATCH 12/12] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Fri Oct 11 2013 - 06:27:17 EST


On Fri, 11 Oct, at 02:24:37PM, Dave Young wrote:
> For the boot efi_reserve_boot_services code, it's mainly for the
> SetVirtualAddressMap callback use, so boot regions should not be reused
> before SetVirtualAddressMap, but the overlapping happens before the
> efi_reserve_boot_services, isn't it a problem?

Hang on, which kernel are you referring to here? The boot kernel or the
kexec'd kernel? I thought you were saying you noticed the overlap when
running in the second (kexec'd) kernel?

The only reason that you would see this overlap in the first (boot)
kernel is if the bootloader messed up and allocated the kernel text as
EfiBootServicesCode/Data. I'd like to believe no bootloaders are still
doing that.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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