Re: [regression, bisected] x86: efi: Pass boot services variableinfo to runtime code

From: Russ Anderson
Date: Thu May 30 2013 - 18:17:53 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:16:12AM +0800, joeyli wrote:
> æ åï2013-05-30 æ 00:53 +0200ïJiri Kosina æåï
> > On Wed, 29 May 2013, Russ Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > > Yes, but this call is clearly happening way before ExitBootServices() --
> > > > see the surrounding code, see for example this in efi_main():
> > > >
> > > > [ ... snip ... ]
> > > > setup_efi_vars(boot_params);
> > > >
> > > > setup_efi_pci(boot_params);
> > > >
> > > > status = efi_call_phys3(sys_table->boottime->allocate_pool,
> > > > EFI_LOADER_DATA, sizeof(*gdt),
> > > > (void **)&gdt);
> > > > if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
> > > > efi_printk("Failed to alloc mem for gdt structure\n");
> > > > goto fail;
> > > > }
> > > > [ ... snip ... ]
> > >
> > > Yes. Note the failing call is sys_table->runtime while all the
> > > other calls are sys_table->boottime and seem to work. Not sure
> > > why the sys_table->runtime call has a problem but it may be
> > > a clue. Could something in the runtime path not be set up???
> >
> > That was my original idea early today as well. My understanding of the
> > UEFI spec is admittedly limited, but afaics calling runtime method from
> > boot environment should be a valid thing to do ... ?
>
> QueryVariableInfo() is a runtime services, all runtime services should
> available bother on boot time and runtime:
>
> UEFI spec 2.3.1 P.109:
> Runtime Services
> Functions that are available before and after any call to
> ExitBootServices(). These functions are described in Section 7.

That's a great idea. This patch moves the QueryVariableInfo()
call from bootime to runtime, in efi_late_init(). The attached
patch is consistent with the UEFI spec and avoids the problem.

Thanks,
--
Russ Anderson, OS RAS/Partitioning Project Lead
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@xxxxxxx
Move query_variable_info call to runtime to avoid bios issues.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 49 ---------------------------------------
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 35 ++++++++++++---------------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c 2013-05-30 11:02:19.034914824 -0500
+++ linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c 2013-05-30 16:53:50.512636568 -0500
@@ -251,53 +251,6 @@ static void find_bits(unsigned long mask
*size = len;
}

-static efi_status_t setup_efi_vars(struct boot_params *params)
-{
- struct setup_data *data;
- struct efi_var_bootdata *efidata;
- u64 store_size, remaining_size, var_size;
- efi_status_t status;
-
- if (sys_table->runtime->hdr.revision < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
- return EFI_UNSUPPORTED;
-
- data = (struct setup_data *)(unsigned long)params->hdr.setup_data;
-
- while (data && data->next)
- data = (struct setup_data *)(unsigned long)data->next;
-
- status = efi_call_phys4((void *)sys_table->runtime->query_variable_info,
- EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE |
- EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
- EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS, &store_size,
- &remaining_size, &var_size);
-
- if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) { // RJA
- efi_printk("RJA: setup_efi_vars FAILED\n");
- return status;
- }
-
- status = efi_call_phys3(sys_table->boottime->allocate_pool,
- EFI_LOADER_DATA, sizeof(*efidata), &efidata);
-
- if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
- return status;
-
- efidata->data.type = SETUP_EFI_VARS;
- efidata->data.len = sizeof(struct efi_var_bootdata) -
- sizeof(struct setup_data);
- efidata->data.next = 0;
- efidata->store_size = store_size;
- efidata->remaining_size = remaining_size;
- efidata->max_var_size = var_size;
-
- if (data)
- data->next = (unsigned long)efidata;
- else
- params->hdr.setup_data = (unsigned long)efidata;
-
-}
-
static efi_status_t setup_efi_pci(struct boot_params *params)
{
efi_pci_io_protocol *pci;
@@ -1204,8 +1157,6 @@ struct boot_params *efi_main(void *handl

setup_graphics(boot_params);

- setup_efi_vars(boot_params);
-
setup_efi_pci(boot_params);

status = efi_call_phys3(sys_table->boottime->allocate_pool,
Index: linux/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c 2013-05-30 11:02:19.034914824 -0500
+++ linux/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c 2013-05-30 17:05:38.140039879 -0500
@@ -786,9 +786,6 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
char vendor[100] = "unknown";
int i = 0;
void *tmp;
- struct setup_data *data;
- struct efi_var_bootdata *efi_var_data;
- u64 pa_data;

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
if (boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab_hi ||
@@ -806,22 +803,6 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
if (efi_systab_init(efi_phys.systab))
return;

- pa_data = boot_params.hdr.setup_data;
- while (pa_data) {
- data = early_ioremap(pa_data, sizeof(*efi_var_data));
- if (data->type == SETUP_EFI_VARS) {
- efi_var_data = (struct efi_var_bootdata *)data;
-
- efi_var_store_size = efi_var_data->store_size;
- efi_var_remaining_size = efi_var_data->remaining_size;
- efi_var_max_var_size = efi_var_data->max_var_size;
- }
- pa_data = data->next;
- early_iounmap(data, sizeof(*efi_var_data));
- }
-
- boot_used_size = efi_var_store_size - efi_var_remaining_size;
-
set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES, &x86_efi_facility);

/*
@@ -877,7 +858,23 @@ void __init efi_init(void)

void __init efi_late_init(void)
{
+ efi_status_t status;
+
efi_bgrt_init();
+
+ if (efi.runtime_version < EFI_2_00_SYSTEM_TABLE_REVISION)
+ return;
+
+ status = efi_call_virt4(query_variable_info,
+ EFI_VARIABLE_NON_VOLATILE |
+ EFI_VARIABLE_BOOTSERVICE_ACCESS |
+ EFI_VARIABLE_RUNTIME_ACCESS,
+ &efi_var_max_var_size, &efi_var_remaining_size,
+ &efi_var_store_size);
+ if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
+ return;
+
+ boot_used_size = efi_var_store_size - efi_var_remaining_size;
}

void __init efi_set_executable(efi_memory_desc_t *md, bool executable)