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From: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>
To: "Dave Young" <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "X86 ML" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@suse.de>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt@console-pimps.org>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	"James Bottomley" <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
	"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] EFI: Runtime services virtual mapping
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:56:49 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e39e1065bddc2afee2cb6eed957e3ba8.squirrel@www.skyhub.de> (raw)

On Tue, September 24, 2013 2:45 pm, Dave Young wrote:
> Think again about this, how about 1:1 map them from a base address
> like -64G phy_addr -> (-64G + phy_addr), in this way we can avoid
> depending on the previous region size.

Right, how we layout the regions is arbitrary as long as we start at
the same VA and use the same regions, in the same order and of the same
size...

> For the zero region problem, we can resolve it as a standalone
> problem.

... however, we still need to understand why it fails mapping the boot
services region as some implementations apparently do call boot services
even after ExitBootServices(). IOW, we need that region mapped in the
kexec'ed kernel too.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.


             reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 14:56 Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-09-25  0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-25  2:36   ` Dave Young
2013-09-25  5:47   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-26  3:12   ` Dave Young
2013-09-30 20:17     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 20:35       ` Vivek Goyal
2013-09-30 20:41         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 20:46           ` Vivek Goyal
2013-09-30 21:06             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-30 21:09               ` Vivek Goyal
2013-10-08  9:18       ` Dave Young
2013-09-25  2:31 ` Dave Young
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-09-19 14:54 [PATCH 00/11] EFI runtime " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-19 14:54 ` [PATCH 11/11] EFI: Runtime " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-21 11:39   ` [PATCH -v2] " Borislav Petkov
2013-09-22 12:35     ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 13:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-22 14:00         ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 14:31           ` Dave Young
2013-09-22 15:27         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-22 16:38           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-23  5:45           ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  2:52           ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  3:06             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-09-24  4:57               ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  4:58                 ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  5:23                   ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  8:57                     ` Dave Young
2013-09-24  9:43                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-24 10:01                   ` Dave Young
2013-09-24 12:45                   ` Dave Young
2013-10-02 10:04               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 15:43                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-02 17:05                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 17:32                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-02 18:42                       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-02 18:46                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-04  9:42                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-10-04 14:43                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-04 14:50                               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-23  5:47     ` Dave Young
2013-09-23  6:29       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-23  7:08         ` Dave Young
2013-09-23  8:45     ` Borislav Petkov
2013-09-25  9:24     ` Borislav Petkov

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