efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever

Today, it is not possible for drivers to reserve EFI boot services for
access after efi_free_boot_services() has been called on x86. For
ARM/arm64 it can be done simply by calling memblock_reserve().

Having this ability for all three architectures is desirable for a
couple of reasons,

  1) It saves drivers copying data out of those regions
  2) kexec reboot can now make use of things like ESRT

Instead of using the standard memblock_reserve() which is insufficient
to reserve the region on x86 (see efi_reserve_boot_services()), a new
API is introduced in this patch; efi_mem_reserve().

efi.memmap now always represents which EFI memory regions are
available. On x86 the EFI boot services regions that have not been
reserved via efi_mem_reserve() will be removed from efi.memmap during
efi_free_boot_services().

This has implications for kexec, since it is not possible for a newly
kexec'd kernel to access the same boot services regions that the
initial boot kernel had access to unless they are reserved by every
kexec kernel in the chain.

Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> [kexec/kdump]
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> [arm]
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 987c18f6fcae..3fe4f3c47834 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -944,6 +944,7 @@ extern u64 efi_mem_attribute (unsigned long phys_addr, unsigned long size);
 extern int __init efi_uart_console_only (void);
 extern u64 efi_mem_desc_end(efi_memory_desc_t *md);
 extern int efi_mem_desc_lookup(u64 phys_addr, efi_memory_desc_t *out_md);
+extern void efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t addr, u64 size);
 extern void efi_initialize_iomem_resources(struct resource *code_resource,
 		struct resource *data_resource, struct resource *bss_resource);
 extern void efi_reserve_boot_services(void);