x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping

We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.

Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.

Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.

While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).

Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 7a0f202d482e..ed43e92b0e7e 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -835,6 +835,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         edd=            [EDD]
                         Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"}
 
+        efi=            [EFI]
+                        Format: { "old_map" }
+                        old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI
+                        runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by
+                        default.
+
         efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86]
                         Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of
                         your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if