On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:06:30AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> There are two problems with the UEFI stub DT memory node removal
> routine:
> - it deletes nodes as it traverses the tree, which happens to work
>   but is not supported, as deletion invalidates the node iterator;
> - deleting memory nodes entirely may discard annotations in the form
>   of additional properties on the nodes.
> 
> Now that the UEFI initialization has moved to an earlier stage, we can
> actually just ignore any memblocks that are installed after we have
> processed the UEFI memory map. This way, it is no longer necessary to
> remove the nodes, so we can remove that logic from the stub as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c               | 10 ++++++++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c | 24 +-------------------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Nice cleanup.

Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <[email protected]>
 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index ab25fde7397c..ecbc051bc66b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -379,6 +379,16 @@ void __init early_init_dt_add_memory_arch(u64 base, u64 
> size)
>  {
>       const u64 phys_offset = __pa(PAGE_OFFSET);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * This callback will be invoked both when booting via UEFI and when
> +      * booting via DT only. In the former case, we need to ignore memory
> +      * nodes in the DT since UEFI is authoritative when it comes to the
> +      * memory map. So ignore any invocations of this callback after
> +      * EFI_MEMMAP has been set.
> +      */
> +     if (efi_enabled(EFI_MEMMAP))
> +             return;
> +
>       if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(base)) {
>               if (size < PAGE_SIZE - (base & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
>                       pr_warn("Ignoring memory block 0x%llx - 0x%llx\n",
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c 
> b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
> index ef5d764e2a27..343e7992bd8f 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/fdt.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ efi_status_t update_fdt(efi_system_table_t *sys_table, void 
> *orig_fdt,
>                       unsigned long map_size, unsigned long desc_size,
>                       u32 desc_ver)
>  {
> -     int node, prev, num_rsv;
> +     int node, num_rsv;
>       int status;
>       u32 fdt_val32;
>       u64 fdt_val64;
> @@ -54,28 +54,6 @@ efi_status_t update_fdt(efi_system_table_t *sys_table, 
> void *orig_fdt,
>               goto fdt_set_fail;
>  
>       /*
> -      * Delete any memory nodes present. We must delete nodes which
> -      * early_init_dt_scan_memory may try to use.
> -      */
> -     prev = 0;
> -     for (;;) {
> -             const char *type;
> -             int len;
> -
> -             node = fdt_next_node(fdt, prev, NULL);
> -             if (node < 0)
> -                     break;
> -
> -             type = fdt_getprop(fdt, node, "device_type", &len);
> -             if (type && strncmp(type, "memory", len) == 0) {
> -                     fdt_del_node(fdt, node);
> -                     continue;
> -             }
> -
> -             prev = node;
> -     }
> -
> -     /*
>        * Delete all memory reserve map entries. When booting via UEFI,
>        * kernel will use the UEFI memory map to find reserved regions.
>        */
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 
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