Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933674AbaJ2OU5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:20:57 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:45094 "EHLO mail-wg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932475AbaJ2OUz (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:20:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:20:52 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Mathias Krause Cc: Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , x86-ml , Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] x86, ptdump: Add section for EFI runtime services Message-ID: <20141029142052.GR12020@console-pimps.org> References: <20141007150132.GA7307@nazgul.tnic> <20141007170748.GA25767@jig.fritz.box> <20141008151730.GB16892@pd.tnic> <20141008222619.GG16892@pd.tnic> <20141012125515.GA32045@jig.fritz.box> <20141028185756.GD10873@pd.tnic> <20141028201342.GG10873@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 28 Oct, at 10:14:25PM, Mathias Krause wrote: > > Mapping the kernel into the EFI page table may help ;) Then the > kernel's #PF handler would be present and able to print a register > dump, at least. The kernel is already mapped into the EFI page table. > So, assuming you're not mapping the EFI virtual mappings below the > pgd[511] hierarchy, making pgd[511] equal init_level4_pgt[511] should > help in this case. In fact, you need to map portions of the kernel > into the EFI page table anyway. Otherwise the EFI code wouldn't be > able to access, e.g., the data it should write to NVRAM. So the EFI > code would just trap and trigger a #PF -- and because of the missing > #PF handler, a #DF -- and because of the missing #DF handler the > triple fault. ;) Exactly. We don't setup a separate page table for EFI calls for any kind of isolation, we do it to make use of the existing 1:1 mappings in trampoline_pgd because some firmware directly reference physical addresses at runtime. It actually doesn't work too well in practice, because you soon hit other issues on those firmware, but there you go. So the fact that we have EFI mappings in init_level4_pgt[] isn't indicative of any kind of bug, it's potentially a bit unclean, but that's about it. -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/