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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:28:18 -0800
From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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	Oliver Smith-Denny <osde@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] efi: Add ACPI_MEMORY_NVS into the linear map
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:27:54AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 05:10, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:49:32AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:51:06PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > > > Currently ACPI_MEMORY_NVS is omitted from the linear map, which causes
> > > > a trouble with the following firmware memory region setup:
> > > >
> > > >     [..] efi:   0x0000dfd62000-0x0000dfd83fff [ACPI Reclaim|...]
> > > >     [..] efi:   0x0000dfd84000-0x0000dfd87fff [ACPI Mem NVS|...]
> > > >
> > > > , on ARM64 with 64k page size, the whole 0x0000dfd80000-0x0000dfd8ffff
> > > > range will be omitted from the the linear map due to 64k round-up. And
> > > > a page fault happens when trying to access the ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY:
> > > >
> > > >     [...] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0000dfd80000
> > > >
> > > > To fix this, add ACPI_MEMORY_NVS into the linear map.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
> > >
> > > What commit id does this fix?  Can you include that as well?
> > >
> >
> > It should be 7aff79e297ee ("Drivers: hv: Enable Hyper-V code to be built
> > on ARM64"), but as Ard mentioned earlier, this could be fixed at the VM
> > firmware, and Oliver is working on that. Should the situation change, I
> > will send a V2 with more information and include the commit id.
> >
> 
> The patch as-is is not acceptable to me, so no need to send a v2 just
> to add more information.
> 
> Please consider the fix I proposed for arch_memremap_can_ram_remap()
> if fixing this in the firmware is not feasible.

Got it. Would do if necessary, thanks!

Regards,
Boqun