We need a way to customize the behaviour of the EFI boot stub, in
particular, we need a way to disable the "chunking" workaround, used
when reading files from the EFI System Partition.
One of my machines doesn't cope well when reading files in 1MB chunks to
a buffer above the 4GB mark - it appears that the "chunking" bug
workaround triggers another firmware bug. This was only discovered with
commit 4bf7111f50 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G"), and
that commit is perfectly valid. The symptom I observed was a corrupt
initrd rather than any kind of crash.
efi= is now used to specify EFI parameters in two very different
execution environments, the EFI boot stub and during kernel boot.
There is also a slight performance optimization by enabling efi=nochunk,
but that's offset by the fact that you're more likely to run into
firmware issues, at least on x86. This is the rationale behind leaving
the workaround enabled by default.
Also provide some documentation for EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE and why we're
using the current value of 1MB.
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes in this cycle are:
- arm64 efi stub fixes, preservation of FP/SIMD registers across
firmware calls, and conversion of the EFI stub code into a static
library - Ard Biesheuvel
- Xen EFI support - Daniel Kiper
- Support for autoloading the efivars driver - Lee, Chun-Yi
- Use the PE/COFF headers in the x86 EFI boot stub to request that
the stub be loaded with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN alignment - Michael
Brown
- Consolidate all the x86 EFI quirks into one file - Saurabh Tangri
- Additional error logging in x86 EFI boot stub - Ulf Winkelvos
- Support loading initrd above 4G in EFI boot stub - Yinghai Lu
- EFI reboot patches for ACPI hardware reduced platforms"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
efi/arm64: Handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table
arch/x86/xen: Silence compiler warnings
xen: Silence compiler warnings
x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers
x86/efi: Add better error logging to EFI boot stub
efi: Autoload efivars
efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars
arch/x86: Remove efi_set_rtc_mmss()
arch/x86: Replace plain strings with constants
xen: Put EFI machinery in place
xen: Define EFI related stuff
arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_MEMMAP) call
arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES) call
efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag
arch/x86: Do not access EFI memory map if it is not available
efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*()
arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap()
x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI
efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem()
...
This patch changes both x86 and arm64 efistub implementations
from #including shared .c files under drivers/firmware/efi to
building shared code as a static library.
The x86 code uses a stub built into the boot executable which
uncompresses the kernel at boot time. In this case, the library is
linked into the decompressor.
In the arm64 case, the stub is part of the kernel proper so the library
is linked into the kernel proper as well.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
