[PATCH] Remove warning in efi_enter_virtual_mode V2

From: Bryan O'Donoghue
Date: Wed Apr 17 2013 - 18:03:45 EST


Some EFI BIOS stores BGRT data in the wrong place and some EFI based
BIOS also requires mapping of boot code/data when doing
efi_enter_virtual_mode.

Current code in efi_enter_virtual_mode maps both EFI_RUNTIME_MEMORY and
BIOS boot code/data.

This patch gives the option to switch off that behavior - if your BIOS
has neither BGRT - nor bugs that require mapping of EFI boot code/data

Removes the following warning when booting Linux with an EFI BIOS that
is bug free on IA32

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:102 __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440()
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9.0-rc7+ #95
Call Trace:
[<c102b6af>] warn_slowpath_common+0x5f/0x80
[<c1023fb3>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c1023fb3>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c102b6ed>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[<c1023fb3>] __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c106007b>] ? get_usage_chars+0xfb/0x110
[<c102d937>] ? vprintk_emit+0x147/0x480
[<c1418593>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c102406a>] ioremap_cache+0x1a/0x20
[<c1418593>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c1418593>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c1407984>] start_kernel+0x286/0x2f4
[<c1407535>] ? repair_env_string+0x51/0x51
[<c1407362>] i386_start_kernel+0x12c/0x12f
---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

Mapping only memory EFI_RUNTIME_MEMORY is is consistent with the code in
arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c:efi_enter_virtual_mode();

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 14 +++++++++++---
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4609e81..faaa5cb 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1856,6 +1856,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.

noefi [X86] Disable EFI runtime services support.

+ noefi_virt_mapboot
+ [X86] Do not map EFI boot code/data when calling
+ efi_enter_virtual_mode().
+
noexec [IA-64]

noexec [X86]
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 5f2ecaf..64f98cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ static int __init setup_noefi(char *arg)
}
early_param("noefi", setup_noefi);

+static bool __initdata virt_mapboot = true;
+static int __init setup_noefi_virt_mapboot(char *arg)
+{
+ virt_mapboot = false;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_param("noefi_virt_mapboot", setup_noefi_virt_mapboot);
+
int add_efi_memmap;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_efi_memmap);

@@ -884,9 +892,9 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)

for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
md = p;
- if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
- md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
- md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
+ if (!((md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) || (virt_mapboot &&
+ (md->type == EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE ||
+ md->type == EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA))))
continue;

size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
--
1.7.10.4

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