Re: [PATCH] x86/efi: Always map boot service regions into new EFI page tables

[Matt Fleming]

On Sun, 13 Mar, at 09:58:47PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> (Fixing Maarten's email address which I botched originally)
> 
> On Sun, 13 Mar, at 05:09:35PM, Scott Ashcroft wrote:
> > On Fri, 2016-03-11 at 11:19 +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > Some machines have EFI regions in page zero (physical address
> > > 0x00000000) and historically that region has been added to the e820
> > > map via trim_bios_range(), and ultimately mapped into the kernel page
> > > tables. It was not mapped via efi_map_regions() as one would expect.
> > > 
> > > Alexis reports that with the new separate EFI page tables some boot
> > > services regions, such as page zero, are not mapped. This triggers an
> > > oops during the SetVirtualAddressMap() runtime call.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm still seeing a failure to boot even with this patch.
> > 
> > http://www.qzxyz.com/IMG_20160313_164601.jpgSorry for the dodgy photo but the screen has almost a mirror finish.
> > 
> > Attached is the dmesg from 4.4 with efi=debug memblock=debug
> 
> Well, crap. Can you enable CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP and send the dmesg
> because it would be good to know how things are mapped before this
> patch.
> 
> I'd be surprised if the issue you're seeing is related to the one that
> Alexis reported. Having corrupt page table structures is a whole new
> bag of scary.
> 
> Does $(grep pdpe1gb /proc/cpuinfo) show any output on your machine?

Assuming the answer to this question is "no", can you try out this
patch?

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 8fee5b6f8f66..af74849e8c0f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ static int populate_pud(struct cpa_data *cpa, unsigned long start, pgd_t *pgd,
 	/*
 	 * Map everything starting from the Gb boundary, possibly with 1G pages
 	 */
-	while (end - start >= PUD_SIZE) {
+	while (cpu_has_gbpages && end - start >= PUD_SIZE) {
 		set_pud(pud, __pud(cpa->pfn << PAGE_SHIFT | _PAGE_PSE |
 				   massage_pgprot(pud_pgprot)));