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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2023-06-06 17:26:31 +0300
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2023-06-06 16:58:23 +0200
commit745e3ed85f71a6382a239b03d9278a8025f2beae (patch)
treeaf0b35cb1821223b4546dba8ec3453c75ef1f3e1 /arch
parent2e9f46ee1599be8a50a5366eb3ef4a4b5acff0b7 (diff)
efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual Machine platform. Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the accepted guest physical address range. It's better to postpone memory acceptance until memory is needed. It lowers boot time and reduces memory overhead. The kernel needs to know what memory has been accepted. Firmware communicates this information via memory map: a new memory type -- EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY -- indicates such memory. Range-based tracking works fine for firmware, but it gets bulky for the kernel: e820 (or whatever the arch uses) has to be modified on every page acceptance. It leads to table fragmentation and there's a limited number of entries in the e820 table. Another option is to mark such memory as usable in e820 and track if the range has been accepted in a bitmap. One bit in the bitmap represents a naturally aligned power-2-sized region of address space -- unit. For x86, unit size is 2MiB: 4k of the bitmap is enough to track 64GiB or physical address space. In the worst-case scenario -- a huge hole in the middle of the address space -- It needs 256MiB to handle 4PiB of the address space. Any unaccepted memory that is not aligned to unit_size gets accepted upfront. The bitmap is allocated and constructed in the EFI stub and passed down to the kernel via EFI configuration table. allocate_e820() allocates the bitmap if unaccepted memory is present, according to the size of unaccepted region. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem.c9
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h2
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index 6b6cfe607bdb..cc4978123c30 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ endif
vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += $(obj)/acpi.o
vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_INTEL_TDX_GUEST) += $(obj)/tdx.o $(obj)/tdcall.o
+vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY) += $(obj)/mem.o
vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI) += $(obj)/efi.o
vmlinux-objs-$(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED) += $(obj)/efi_mixed.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..67594fcb11d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/mem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+#include "error.h"
+
+void arch_accept_memory(phys_addr_t start, phys_addr_t end)
+{
+ /* Platform-specific memory-acceptance call goes here */
+ error("Cannot accept memory");
+}
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
index 419280d263d2..8b4be7cecdb8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ extern unsigned long efi_mixed_mode_stack_pa;
#define ARCH_EFI_IRQ_FLAGS_MASK X86_EFLAGS_IF
+#define EFI_UNACCEPTED_UNIT_SIZE PMD_SIZE
+
/*
* The EFI services are called through variadic functions in many cases. These
* functions are implemented in assembler and support only a fixed number of