On 11/30/18 12:47 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On some systems, not all RAM may be usable within U-Boot. Maybe the
> memory maps are incomplete, maybe it's used as workaround for broken
> DMA. But whatever the reason may be, a platform can say that it does
> not wish to have its RAM accessed above a certain address by defining
> board_get_usable_ram_top().
>
> In the efi_loader world, we ignored that hint, mostly because very few
> boards actually have real restrictions around this.
>
> So let's honor the board's wish to not access high addresses during
> boot time. The best way to do so is by indicating the respective pages
> as "allocated by firmware". That way, Operating Systems will still
> use the pages after boot, but before boot no allocation will use them.
>
> Reported-by: Baruch Siach <bar...@tkos.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
> ---
> include/common.h | 11 +++++++++++
> lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c | 9 +++++++++
> 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
> index 3f69943887..8f295c2f30 100644
> --- a/include/common.h
> +++ b/include/common.h
> @@ -106,6 +106,17 @@ int mdm_init(void);
> void board_show_dram(phys_size_t size);
>
> /**
> + * Get the uppermost pointer that is valid to access
> + *
> + * Some systems may not map all of their address space. This function allows
> + * boards to indicate what their highest support pointer value is for DRAM
> + * access.
> + *
> + * @param total_size Size of U-Boot (unused?)
> + */
> +ulong board_get_usable_ram_top(ulong total_size);
> +
> +/**
> * arch_fixup_fdt() - Write arch-specific information to fdt
> *
> * Defined in arch/$(ARCH)/lib/bootm-fdt.c
> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
> index f225a9028c..2f13bf8a75 100644
> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
> @@ -551,6 +551,7 @@ efi_status_t efi_get_memory_map(efi_uintn_t
> *memory_map_size,
>
> __weak void efi_add_known_memory(void)
> {
> + u64 ram_top = board_get_usable_ram_top(0) & ~EFI_PAGE_MASK;
> int i;
>
> /* Add RAM */
> @@ -570,6 +571,14 @@ __weak void efi_add_known_memory(void)
> efi_add_memory_map(ram_start, pages,
> EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY, false);
> }
> +
> + /* Reserve memory above ram_top, as that may not be mapped */
> + if ((ram_top >= ram_start) && (ram_top < ram_end)) {
> + pages = (ram_end - ram_top) >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
Please, do not assume that ram_end is page aligned. You could use the
macro efi_size_in_pages() here. See
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/999522/
Best regards
Heinrich
> +
> + efi_add_memory_map(ram_top, pages,
> + EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA, true);
> + }
> }
> }
>
>
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