From d2f7cbe7b26a74dbbbf8f325b2a6fd01bc34032c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:25:08 +0100 Subject: x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously, with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use them. Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute the kernel namespace. Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous options and chicken bits from the command line. While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to hold up the sarcasm here...). Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 7a0f202d482e..ed43e92b0e7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -835,6 +835,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} + efi= [EFI] + Format: { "old_map" } + old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI + runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by + default. + efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if -- cgit v1.2.1