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* [RFC PATCH 0/4] EFI boot stub memory map fix
@ 2013-08-19 20:00 Linn Crosetto
  2013-08-19 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] efi: Decouple efi_memmap_init() and do_add_efi_memmap() Linn Crosetto
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Linn Crosetto @ 2013-08-19 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: matt.fleming, hpa, tglx, mingo, x86, yinghai, penberg,
	jacob.shin, linux-efi
  Cc: linux-kernel, Linn Crosetto

I realize the EFI stub for ARM patches are in flight, 

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/9/554

and overlap with some of the files but I wanted to send these out for comment.

This series fixes a problem with EFI memory maps larger than 128 entries when
booting using the EFI boot stub, which results in overflowing the e820_map in
boot_params and an eventual halt when checking the map size in
sanitize_e820_map().

The fix implemented is to add the EFI memory map from setup_arch() via a
memory_setup hook.

Two options were considered:

 1. Use the SETUP_E820_EXT setup_data type to add the extra entries.

 2. Create a memory_setup function to be enabled when the EFI memory map is
    needed.

Option 2 appeared to be the cleaner solution, reducing duplication with
existing code, given a reasonable mechanism for determining when to
replace the default memory_setup function.


Linn Crosetto (4):
  efi: Decouple efi_memmap_init() and do_add_efi_memmap()
  efi: Add memory_setup function efi_memory_setup()
  efi: Add efi_memmap_needed()
  x86: Fix EFI boot stub for large memory maps

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 64 ++--------------------------------------
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c          |  3 ++
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c      | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 include/linux/efi.h              |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.11.3


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2013-08-19 20:00 [RFC PATCH 0/4] EFI boot stub memory map fix Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] efi: Decouple efi_memmap_init() and do_add_efi_memmap() Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] efi: Add memory_setup function efi_memory_setup() Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] efi: Add efi_memmap_needed() Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 20:00 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] x86: Fix EFI boot stub for large memory maps Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 20:06 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] EFI boot stub memory map fix H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-19 20:47   ` Yinghai Lu
2013-08-19 21:09     ` Linn Crosetto
2013-08-19 21:39       ` Yinghai Lu

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