efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever

Today, it is not possible for drivers to reserve EFI boot services for
access after efi_free_boot_services() has been called on x86. For
ARM/arm64 it can be done simply by calling memblock_reserve().

Having this ability for all three architectures is desirable for a
couple of reasons,

  1) It saves drivers copying data out of those regions
  2) kexec reboot can now make use of things like ESRT

Instead of using the standard memblock_reserve() which is insufficient
to reserve the region on x86 (see efi_reserve_boot_services()), a new
API is introduced in this patch; efi_mem_reserve().

efi.memmap now always represents which EFI memory regions are
available. On x86 the EFI boot services regions that have not been
reserved via efi_mem_reserve() will be removed from efi.memmap during
efi_free_boot_services().

This has implications for kexec, since it is not possible for a newly
kexec'd kernel to access the same boot services regions that the
initial boot kernel had access to unless they are reserved by every
kexec kernel in the chain.

Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> [kexec/kdump]
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> [arm]
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index d4886fd50c16..dfe07316cae5 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/acpi.h>
 #include <linux/ucs2_string.h>
+#include <linux/memblock.h>
 
 #include <asm/early_ioremap.h>
 
@@ -396,6 +397,35 @@ u64 __init efi_mem_desc_end(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
         return end;
 }
 
+void __init __weak efi_arch_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size) {}
+
+/**
+ * efi_mem_reserve - Reserve an EFI memory region
+ * @addr: Physical address to reserve
+ * @size: Size of reservation
+ *
+ * Mark a region as reserved from general kernel allocation and
+ * prevent it being released by efi_free_boot_services().
+ *
+ * This function should be called drivers once they've parsed EFI
+ * configuration tables to figure out where their data lives, e.g.
+ * efi_esrt_init().
+ */
+void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size)
+{
+        if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
+                memblock_reserve(addr, size);
+
+        /*
+         * Some architectures (x86) reserve all boot services ranges
+         * until efi_free_boot_services() because of buggy firmware
+         * implementations. This means the above memblock_reserve() is
+         * superfluous on x86 and instead what it needs to do is
+         * ensure the @start, @size is not freed.
+         */
+        efi_arch_mem_reserve(addr, size);
+}
+
 static __initdata efi_config_table_type_t common_tables[] = {
         {ACPI_20_TABLE_GUID, "ACPI 2.0", &efi.acpi20},
         {ACPI_TABLE_GUID, "ACPI", &efi.acpi},