[PATCH v2 3/3] firmware: google: memconsole: Adapt to new coreboot ring buffer format

From: Julius Werner
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 16:45:25 EST


The upstream coreboot implementation of memconsole was enhanced from a
single-boot console to a persistent ring buffer
(https://review.coreboot.org/#/c/18301). This patch changes the kernel
memconsole driver to be able to read the new format in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firmware/google/memconsole-coreboot.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/memconsole-coreboot.c b/drivers/firmware/google/memconsole-coreboot.c
index b6234e61004d..23dc363b8519 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/google/memconsole-coreboot.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/google/memconsole-coreboot.c
@@ -26,19 +26,50 @@

/* CBMEM firmware console log descriptor. */
struct cbmem_cons {
- u32 buffer_size;
- u32 buffer_cursor;
- u8 buffer_body[0];
+ u32 size;
+ u32 cursor;
+ u8 body[0];
} __packed;

+#define CURSOR_MASK ((1 << 28) - 1)
+#define OVERFLOW (1 << 31)
+
static struct cbmem_cons __iomem *cbmem_console;

+/*
+ * The cbmem_console structure is read again on every access because it may
+ * change at any time if runtime firmware logs new messages. This may rarely
+ * lead to race conditions where the firmware overwrites the beginning of the
+ * ring buffer with more lines after we have already read |cursor|. It should be
+ * rare and harmless enough that we don't spend extra effort working around it.
+ */
static ssize_t memconsole_coreboot_read(char *buf, loff_t pos, size_t count)
{
- return memory_read_from_buffer(buf, count, &pos,
- cbmem_console->buffer_body,
- min(cbmem_console->buffer_cursor,
- cbmem_console->buffer_size));
+ u32 cursor = cbmem_console->cursor & CURSOR_MASK;
+ u32 flags = cbmem_console->cursor & ~CURSOR_MASK;
+ u32 size = cbmem_console->size;
+ struct seg { /* describes ring buffer segments in logical order */
+ u32 phys; /* physical offset from start of mem buffer */
+ u32 len; /* length of segment */
+ } seg[2] = { {0}, {0} };
+ size_t done = 0;
+ int i;
+
+ if (flags & OVERFLOW) {
+ if (cursor > size) /* Shouldn't really happen, but... */
+ cursor = 0;
+ seg[0] = (struct seg){.phys = cursor, .len = size - cursor};
+ seg[1] = (struct seg){.phys = 0, .len = cursor};
+ } else {
+ seg[0] = (struct seg){.phys = 0, .len = min(cursor, size)};
+ }
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(seg) && count > done; i++) {
+ done += memory_read_from_buffer(buf + done, count - done, &pos,
+ cbmem_console->body + seg[i].phys, seg[i].len);
+ pos -= seg[i].len;
+ }
+ return done;
}

static int memconsole_coreboot_init(phys_addr_t physaddr)
@@ -51,7 +82,7 @@ static int memconsole_coreboot_init(phys_addr_t physaddr)
return -ENOMEM;

cbmem_console = memremap(physaddr,
- tmp_cbmc->buffer_size + sizeof(*cbmem_console),
+ tmp_cbmc->size + sizeof(*cbmem_console),
MEMREMAP_WB);
memunmap(tmp_cbmc);

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