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Ard Biesheuvel 550b33cfd4 arm64: efi: Force the use of SetVirtualAddressMap() on Altra machines
Ampere Altra machines are reported to misbehave when the SetTime() EFI
runtime service is called after ExitBootServices() but before calling
SetVirtualAddressMap(). Given that the latter is horrid, pointless and
explicitly documented as optional by the EFI spec, we no longer invoke
it at boot if the configured size of the VA space guarantees that the
EFI runtime memory regions can remain mapped 1:1 like they are at boot
time.

On Ampere Altra machines, this results in SetTime() calls issued by the
rtc-efi driver triggering synchronous exceptions during boot.  We can
now recover from those without bringing down the system entirely, due to
commit 23715a26c8 ("arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous
exceptions occurring in firmware"). However, it would be better to avoid
the issue entirely, given that the firmware appears to remain in a funny
state after this.

So attempt to identify these machines based on the 'family' field in the
type #1 SMBIOS record, and call SetVirtualAddressMap() unconditionally
in that case.

Tested-by: Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2022-11-10 23:14:14 +01:00
arch arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware 2022-11-03 18:01:15 +01:00
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fs efi: efivars: Fix variable writes without query_variable_store() 2022-10-21 11:09:40 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.