[PATCH 2/4] arm64/efi: efistub: don't abort if base of DRAM is occupied

From: suravee.suthikulpanit
Date: Mon Sep 15 2014 - 22:33:56 EST


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>

If we cannot relocate the kernel Image to its preferred offset of base of DRAM
plus TEXT_OFFSET, instead relocate it to the lowest available 2 MB boundary plus
TEXT_OFFSET. We may lose a bit of memory at the low end, but we can still
proceed normally otherwise.

Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c | 16 ++++++----------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
index 1317fef..d27dd98 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi-stub.c
@@ -28,20 +28,16 @@ efi_status_t handle_kernel_image(efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
kernel_size = _edata - _text;
if (*image_addr != (dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET)) {
kernel_memsize = kernel_size + (_end - _edata);
- status = efi_relocate_kernel(sys_table, image_addr,
- kernel_size, kernel_memsize,
- dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET,
- PAGE_SIZE);
+ status = efi_low_alloc(sys_table, kernel_memsize + TEXT_OFFSET,
+ SZ_2M, reserve_addr);
if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Failed to relocate kernel\n");
return status;
}
- if (*image_addr != (dram_base + TEXT_OFFSET)) {
- pr_efi_err(sys_table, "Failed to alloc kernel memory\n");
- efi_free(sys_table, kernel_memsize, *image_addr);
- return EFI_LOAD_ERROR;
- }
- *image_size = kernel_memsize;
+ memcpy((void *)*reserve_addr + TEXT_OFFSET, (void *)*image_addr,
+ kernel_size);
+ *image_addr = *reserve_addr + TEXT_OFFSET;
+ *reserve_size = kernel_memsize + TEXT_OFFSET;
}


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1.9.3

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