efi/arm: Defer persistent reservations until after paging_init()

The new memory EFI reservation feature we introduced to allow memory
reservations to persist across kexec may trigger an unbounded number
of calls to memblock_reserve(). The memblock subsystem can deal with
this fine, but not before memblock resizing is enabled, which we can
only do after paging_init(), when the memory we reallocate the array
into is actually mapped.

So break out the memreserve table processing into a separate routine
and call it after paging_init() on arm64. On ARM, because of limited
reviewing bandwidth of the maintainer, we cannot currently fix this,
so instead, disable the EFI persistent memreserve entirely on ARM so
we can fix it later.

Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181114175544.12860-5-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
index 953e316..f4fc1e0 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/setup.c
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
        arm64_memblock_init();
 
        paging_init();
+       efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations();
 
        acpi_table_upgrade();
 

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 249eb70..72a4da7 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -592,7 +592,11 @@ int __init efi_config_parse_tables(void *config_tables, int count, int sz,
 
                early_memunmap(tbl, sizeof(*tbl));
        }
+       return 0;
+}
 
+int __init efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations(void)
+{
        if (efi.mem_reserve != EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) {
                unsigned long prsv = efi.mem_reserve;
 

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
index 30ac0c9..3d36142 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ void install_memreserve_table(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg)
        efi_guid_t memreserve_table_guid = LINUX_EFI_MEMRESERVE_TABLE_GUID;
        efi_status_t status;
 
+       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM))
+               return;
+
        status = efi_call_early(allocate_pool, EFI_LOADER_DATA, sizeof(*rsv),
                                (void **)&rsv);
        if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 845174e..100ce4a 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -1167,6 +1167,8 @@ static inline bool efi_enabled(int feature)
 extern void efi_reboot(enum reboot_mode reboot_mode, const char *__unused);
 
 extern bool efi_is_table_address(unsigned long phys_addr);
+
+extern int efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations(void);
 #else
 static inline bool efi_enabled(int feature)
 {
@@ -1185,6 +1187,11 @@ static inline bool efi_is_table_address(unsigned long phys_addr)
 {
        return false;
 }
+
+static inline int efi_apply_persistent_mem_reservations(void)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 extern int efi_status_to_err(efi_status_t status);