Commit e2a71476 authored by Cliff Wickman's avatar Cliff Wickman Committed by H. Peter Anvin

x86: correct the conversion of EFI memory types

This patch causes all the EFI_RESERVED_TYPE memory reservations to be recorded
in the e820 table as type E820_RESERVED.

(This patch replaces one called 'x86: vendor reserved memory type'.
 This version has been discussed a bit with Peter and Yinghai but not given
 a final opinion.)

Without this patch EFI_RESERVED_TYPE memory reservations may be
marked usable in the e820 table. There may be a collision between
kernel use and some reserver's use of this memory.

(An example use of this functionality is the UV system, which
 will access extremely large areas of memory with a memory engine
 that allows a user to address beyond the processor's range.  Such
 areas are reserved in the EFI table by the BIOS.
 Some loaders have a restricted number of entries possible in the e820 table,
 hence the need to record the reservations in the unrestricted EFI table.)

The call to do_add_efi_memmap() is only made if "add_efi_memmap" is specified
on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent 95ee14e4
......@@ -240,10 +240,35 @@ static void __init do_add_efi_memmap(void)
unsigned long long size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
int e820_type;
if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_WB)
e820_type = E820_RAM;
else
switch (md->type) {
case EFI_LOADER_CODE:
case EFI_LOADER_DATA:
case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE:
case EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA:
case EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY:
if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_WB)
e820_type = E820_RAM;
else
e820_type = E820_RESERVED;
break;
case EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY:
e820_type = E820_ACPI;
break;
case EFI_ACPI_MEMORY_NVS:
e820_type = E820_NVS;
break;
case EFI_UNUSABLE_MEMORY:
e820_type = E820_UNUSABLE;
break;
default:
/*
* EFI_RESERVED_TYPE EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE
* EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA EFI_MEMORY_MAPPED_IO
* EFI_MEMORY_MAPPED_IO_PORT_SPACE EFI_PAL_CODE
*/
e820_type = E820_RESERVED;
break;
}
e820_add_region(start, size, e820_type);
}
sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map);
......
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