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| author | Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> | 2020-01-13 18:22:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2020-01-20 08:13:01 +0100 |
| commit | 1f299fad1e312947c974c6a1d8a3a484f27a6111 (patch) | |
| tree | 87b1234b4391ae11fa9f6dd87844e7f8fc6ce6e3 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
| parent | 97bb9cdc32108036170d9d0d208257168f80d9e9 (diff) | |
efi/x86: Limit EFI old memory map to SGI UV machines
We carry a quirk in the x86 EFI code to switch back to an older
method of mapping the EFI runtime services memory regions, because
it was deemed risky at the time to implement a new method without
providing a fallback to the old method in case problems arose.
Such problems did arise, but they appear to be limited to SGI UV1
machines, and so these are the only ones for which the fallback gets
enabled automatically (via a DMI quirk). The fallback can be enabled
manually as well, by passing efi=old_map, but there is very little
evidence that suggests that this is something that is being relied
upon in the field.
Given that UV1 support is not enabled by default by the distros
(Ubuntu, Fedora), there is no point in carrying this fallback code
all the time if there are no other users. So let's move it into the
UV support code, and document that efi=old_map now requires this
support code to be enabled.
Note that efi=old_map has been used in the past on other SGI UV
machines to work around kernel regressions in production, so we
keep the option to enable it by hand, but only if the kernel was
built with UV support.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200113172245.27925-8-ardb@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 994632ae48de..e5f043f0342a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1168,8 +1168,7 @@ "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI - runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by - default. + runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some firmware implementations. |