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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/boot, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Add missing declaration of string functions</title>
<updated>2017-01-09T10:53:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Mc Guire</name>
<email>hofrat@osadl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-07T09:38:31+00:00</published>
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Add the missing declarations of basic string functions to string.h to allow
a clean build.

Fixes: 5be865661516 ("String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;hofrat@osadl.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483781911-21399-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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Add the missing declarations of basic string functions to string.h to allow
a clean build.

Fixes: 5be865661516 ("String-handling functions for the new x86 setup code.")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire &lt;hofrat@osadl.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483781911-21399-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing"</title>
<updated>2016-12-19T10:54:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-09T18:24:06+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.

The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID.  Since we no
longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.

I think the relevant CPUs are Geode and Elan, but I'm not sure.

In principle, we should try to do better at identifying CPUID-less
CPUs in early boot, but that's more complicated.

Reported-by: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Whitehead &lt;tedheadster@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;Xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/82acde18a108b8e353180dd6febcc2876df33f24.1481307769.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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This reverts commit ed68d7e9b9cfb64f3045ffbcb108df03c09a0f98.

The patch wasn't quite correct -- there are non-Intel (and hence
non-486) CPUs that we support that don't have CPUID.  Since we no
longer require CPUID for sync_core(), just revert the patch.

I think the relevant CPUs are Geode and Elan, but I'm not sure.

In principle, we should try to do better at identifying CPUID-less
CPUs in early boot, but that's more complicated.

Reported-by: One Thousand Gnomes &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Whitehead &lt;tedheadster@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Andrew Cooper &lt;andrew.cooper3@citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: xen-devel &lt;Xen-devel@lists.xen.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/82acde18a108b8e353180dd6febcc2876df33f24.1481307769.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T19:12:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T19:12:25+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  NTB: correct ntb_spad_count comment typo
  misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message
  Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE
  Remove last traces of ikconfig.h
  treewide: Fix printk() message errors
  Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  NTB: correct ntb_spad_count comment typo
  misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message
  Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE
  Remove last traces of ikconfig.h
  treewide: Fix printk() message errors
  Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T09:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-03T08:53:50+00:00</published>
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Commit 4fd06960f120 ("Use the new x86 setup code for i386") introduced a
reference to the make variable LINUX_INCLUDE. That reference got moved
around a bit and copied twice and now there are three references to it.

There has never been a definition of that variable. (Presumably that is
because it started out as a mistyped reference to LINUXINCLUDE.) So this
reference has always been an empty string. Let's remove it before it
spreads any further.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Commit 4fd06960f120 ("Use the new x86 setup code for i386") introduced a
reference to the make variable LINUX_INCLUDE. That reference got moved
around a bit and copied twice and now there are three references to it.

There has never been a definition of that variable. (Presumably that is
because it started out as a mistyped reference to LINUXINCLUDE.) So this
reference has always been an empty string. Let's remove it before it
spreads any further.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T22:13:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T22:13:30+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups/simplifications by Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle and Wei
  Yang"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot/64: Optimize fixmap page fixup
  x86/boot: Simplify the GDTR calculation assembly code a bit
  x86/boot/build: Remove always empty $(USERINCLUDE)
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Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups/simplifications by Borislav Petkov, Paul Bolle and Wei
  Yang"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot/64: Optimize fixmap page fixup
  x86/boot: Simplify the GDTR calculation assembly code a bit
  x86/boot/build: Remove always empty $(USERINCLUDE)
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-12T18:03:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-12T18:03:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=3940cf0b3d3c6c5817bb86f61a02277cd33f953a'/>
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - Implement EFI dev path parser and other changes to fully support
     thunderbolt devices on Apple Macbooks (Lukas Wunner)

   - Add RNG seeding via the EFI stub, on ARM/arm64 (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Expose EFI framebuffer configuration to user-space, to improve
     tooling (Peter Jones)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Ivan Hu, Wei Yongjun, Yisheng Xie, Dan
     Carpenter, Roy Franz)"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi/libstub: Make efi_random_alloc() allocate below 4 GB on 32-bit
  thunderbolt: Compile on x86 only
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies harder
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies
  thunderbolt: Use Device ROM retrieved from EFI
  x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties
  efi: Allow bitness-agnostic protocol calls
  efi: Add device path parser
  efi/arm*/libstub: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/libstub: Add random.c to ARM build
  efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
  MAINTAINERS: Add ARM and arm64 EFI specific files to EFI subsystem
  efi/libstub: Fix allocation size calculations
  efi/efivar_ssdt_load: Don't return success on allocation failure
  efifb: Show framebuffer layout as device attributes
  efi/efi_test: Use memdup_user() as a cleanup
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'rv'
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'datasize'
  efi/arm*: Fix efi_init() error handling
  efi: Remove unused include of &lt;linux/version.h&gt;
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Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this development cycle were:

   - Implement EFI dev path parser and other changes to fully support
     thunderbolt devices on Apple Macbooks (Lukas Wunner)

   - Add RNG seeding via the EFI stub, on ARM/arm64 (Ard Biesheuvel)

   - Expose EFI framebuffer configuration to user-space, to improve
     tooling (Peter Jones)

   - Misc fixes and cleanups (Ivan Hu, Wei Yongjun, Yisheng Xie, Dan
     Carpenter, Roy Franz)"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  efi/libstub: Make efi_random_alloc() allocate below 4 GB on 32-bit
  thunderbolt: Compile on x86 only
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies harder
  thunderbolt, efi: Fix Kconfig dependencies
  thunderbolt: Use Device ROM retrieved from EFI
  x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties
  efi: Allow bitness-agnostic protocol calls
  efi: Add device path parser
  efi/arm*/libstub: Invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table
  efi/libstub: Add random.c to ARM build
  efi: Add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
  MAINTAINERS: Add ARM and arm64 EFI specific files to EFI subsystem
  efi/libstub: Fix allocation size calculations
  efi/efivar_ssdt_load: Don't return success on allocation failure
  efifb: Show framebuffer layout as device attributes
  efi/efi_test: Use memdup_user() as a cleanup
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'rv'
  efi/efi_test: Fix uninitialized variable 'datasize'
  efi/arm*: Fix efi_init() error handling
  efi: Remove unused include of &lt;linux/version.h&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/build: Build compressed x86 kernels as PIE when !CONFIG_RELOCATABLE as well</title>
<updated>2016-11-21T10:05:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H.J. Lu</name>
<email>hjl.tools@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-18T21:07:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a980ce352fcd408d30b044455e5f6e959d6258b6'/>
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Since the bootloader may load the compressed x86 kernel at any address,
it should always be built as PIE, not just when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

Otherwise, linker in binutils 2.27 will optimize GOT load into the
absolute address when building the compressed x86 kernel as a non-PIE
executable.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Small wording changes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Since the bootloader may load the compressed x86 kernel at any address,
it should always be built as PIE, not just when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.

Otherwise, linker in binutils 2.27 will optimize GOT load into the
absolute address when building the compressed x86 kernel as a non-PIE
executable.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu &lt;hjl.tools@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
[ Small wording changes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Fail the boot if !M486 and CPUID is missing</title>
<updated>2016-11-21T08:04:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-19T23:37:30+00:00</published>
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Linux will have all kinds of sporadic problems on systems that don't
have the CPUID instruction unless CONFIG_M486=y.  In particular,
sync_core() will explode.

I believe that these kernels had a better chance of working before
commit 05fb3c199bb0 ("x86/boot: Initialize FPU and X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS
even if we don't have CPUID").  That commit inadvertently fixed a
serious bug: we used to fail to detect the FPU if CPUID wasn't
present.  Because we also used to forget to set X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, we
end up with no cpu feature bits set at all.  This meant that
alternative patching didn't do anything and, if paravirt was disabled,
we could plausibly finish the entire boot process without calling
sync_core().

Rather than trying to work around these issues, just have the kernel
fail loudly if it's running on a CPUID-less 486, doesn't have CPUID,
and doesn't have CONFIG_M486 set.

Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead &lt;tedheadster@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/70eac6639f23df8be5fe03fa1984aedd5d40077a.1479598603.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Linux will have all kinds of sporadic problems on systems that don't
have the CPUID instruction unless CONFIG_M486=y.  In particular,
sync_core() will explode.

I believe that these kernels had a better chance of working before
commit 05fb3c199bb0 ("x86/boot: Initialize FPU and X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS
even if we don't have CPUID").  That commit inadvertently fixed a
serious bug: we used to fail to detect the FPU if CPUID wasn't
present.  Because we also used to forget to set X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS, we
end up with no cpu feature bits set at all.  This meant that
alternative patching didn't do anything and, if paravirt was disabled,
we could plausibly finish the entire boot process without calling
sync_core().

Rather than trying to work around these issues, just have the kernel
fail loudly if it's running on a CPUID-less 486, doesn't have CPUID,
and doesn't have CONFIG_M486 set.

Reported-by: Matthew Whitehead &lt;tedheadster@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/70eac6639f23df8be5fe03fa1984aedd5d40077a.1479598603.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/efi: Retrieve and assign Apple device properties</title>
<updated>2016-11-13T07:23:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lukas Wunner</name>
<email>lukas@wunner.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-12T21:32:36+00:00</published>
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Apple's EFI drivers supply device properties which are needed to support
Macs optimally. They contain vital information which cannot be obtained
any other way (e.g. Thunderbolt Device ROM). They're also used to convey
the current device state so that OS drivers can pick up where EFI
drivers left (e.g. GPU mode setting).

There's an EFI driver dubbed "AAPL,PathProperties" which implements a
per-device key/value store. Other EFI drivers populate it using a custom
protocol. The macOS bootloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
retrieves the properties with the same protocol. The kernel extension
AppleACPIPlatform.kext subsequently merges them into the I/O Kit
registry (see ioreg(8)) where they can be queried by other kernel
extensions and user space.

This commit extends the efistub to retrieve the device properties before
ExitBootServices is called. It assigns them to devices in an fs_initcall
so that they can be queried with the API in &lt;linux/property.h&gt;.

Note that the device properties will only be available if the kernel is
booted with the efistub. Distros should adjust their installers to
always use the efistub on Macs. grub with the "linux" directive will not
work unless the functionality of this commit is duplicated in grub.
(The "linuxefi" directive should work but is not included upstream as of
this writing.)

The custom protocol has GUID 91BD12FE-F6C3-44FB-A5B7-5122AB303AE0 and
looks like this:

typedef struct {
	unsigned long version; /* 0x10000 */
	efi_status_t (*get) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
	efi_status_t (*set) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		IN	void *property_value,
		IN	u32 property_value_len);
		/* allocates copies of property name and value */
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES */
	efi_status_t (*del) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND */
	efi_status_t (*get_all) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
} apple_properties_protocol;

Thanks to Pedro Vilaça for this blog post which was helpful in reverse
engineering Apple's EFI drivers and bootloader:
https://reverse.put.as/2016/06/25/apple-efi-firmware-passwords-and-the-scbo-myth/

If someone at Apple is reading this, please note there's a memory leak
in your implementation of the del() function as the property struct is
freed but the name and value allocations are not.

Neither the macOS bootloader nor Apple's EFI drivers check the protocol
version, but we do to avoid breakage if it's ever changed. It's been the
same since at least OS X 10.6 (2009).

The get_all() function conveniently fills a buffer with all properties
in marshalled form which can be passed to the kernel as a setup_data
payload. The number of device properties is dynamic and can change
between a first invocation of get_all() (to determine the buffer size)
and a second invocation (to retrieve the actual buffer), hence the
peculiar loop which does not finish until the buffer size settles.
The macOS bootloader does the same.

The setup_data payload is later on unmarshalled in an fs_initcall. The
idea is that most buses instantiate devices in "subsys" initcall level
and drivers are usually bound to these devices in "device" initcall
level, so we assign the properties in-between, i.e. in "fs" initcall
level.

This assumes that devices to which properties pertain are instantiated
from a "subsys" initcall or earlier. That should always be the case
since on macOS, AppleACPIPlatformExpert::matchEFIDevicePath() only
supports ACPI and PCI nodes and we've fully scanned those buses during
"subsys" initcall level.

The second assumption is that properties are only needed from a "device"
initcall or later. Seems reasonable to me, but should this ever not work
out, an alternative approach would be to store the property sets e.g. in
a btree early during boot. Then whenever device_add() is called, an EFI
Device Path would have to be constructed for the newly added device,
and looked up in the btree. That way, the property set could be assigned
to the device immediately on instantiation. And this would also work for
devices instantiated in a deferred fashion. It seems like this approach
would be more complicated and require more code. That doesn't seem
justified without a specific use case.

For comparison, the strategy on macOS is to assign properties to objects
in the ACPI namespace (AppleACPIPlatformExpert::mergeEFIProperties()).
That approach is definitely wrong as it fails for devices not present in
the namespace: The NHI EFI driver supplies properties for attached
Thunderbolt devices, yet on Macs with Thunderbolt 1 only one device
level behind the host controller is described in the namespace.
Consequently macOS cannot assign properties for chained devices. With
Thunderbolt 2 they started to describe three device levels behind host
controllers in the namespace but this grossly inflates the SSDT and
still fails if the user daisy-chained more than three devices.

We copy the property names and values from the setup_data payload to
swappable virtual memory and afterwards make the payload available to
the page allocator. This is just for the sake of good housekeeping, it
wouldn't occupy a meaningful amount of physical memory (4444 bytes on my
machine). Only the payload is freed, not the setup_data header since
otherwise we'd break the list linkage and we cannot safely update the
predecessor's -&gt;next link because there's no locking for the list.

The payload is currently not passed on to kexec'ed kernels, same for PCI
ROMs retrieved by setup_efi_pci(). This can be added later if there is
demand by amending setup_efi_state(). The payload can then no longer be
made available to the page allocator of course.

Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt; [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Pierre Moreau &lt;pierre.morrow@free.fr&gt; [MacBookPro11,3]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Vilaça &lt;reverser@put.as&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-9-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Apple's EFI drivers supply device properties which are needed to support
Macs optimally. They contain vital information which cannot be obtained
any other way (e.g. Thunderbolt Device ROM). They're also used to convey
the current device state so that OS drivers can pick up where EFI
drivers left (e.g. GPU mode setting).

There's an EFI driver dubbed "AAPL,PathProperties" which implements a
per-device key/value store. Other EFI drivers populate it using a custom
protocol. The macOS bootloader /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
retrieves the properties with the same protocol. The kernel extension
AppleACPIPlatform.kext subsequently merges them into the I/O Kit
registry (see ioreg(8)) where they can be queried by other kernel
extensions and user space.

This commit extends the efistub to retrieve the device properties before
ExitBootServices is called. It assigns them to devices in an fs_initcall
so that they can be queried with the API in &lt;linux/property.h&gt;.

Note that the device properties will only be available if the kernel is
booted with the efistub. Distros should adjust their installers to
always use the efistub on Macs. grub with the "linux" directive will not
work unless the functionality of this commit is duplicated in grub.
(The "linuxefi" directive should work but is not included upstream as of
this writing.)

The custom protocol has GUID 91BD12FE-F6C3-44FB-A5B7-5122AB303AE0 and
looks like this:

typedef struct {
	unsigned long version; /* 0x10000 */
	efi_status_t (*get) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
	efi_status_t (*set) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name,
		IN	void *property_value,
		IN	u32 property_value_len);
		/* allocates copies of property name and value */
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES */
	efi_status_t (*del) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		IN	struct efi_dev_path *device,
		IN	efi_char16_t *property_name);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_NOT_FOUND */
	efi_status_t (*get_all) (
		IN	struct apple_properties_protocol *this,
		OUT	void *buffer,
		IN OUT	u32 *buffer_len);
		/* EFI_SUCCESS, EFI_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL */
} apple_properties_protocol;

Thanks to Pedro Vilaça for this blog post which was helpful in reverse
engineering Apple's EFI drivers and bootloader:
https://reverse.put.as/2016/06/25/apple-efi-firmware-passwords-and-the-scbo-myth/

If someone at Apple is reading this, please note there's a memory leak
in your implementation of the del() function as the property struct is
freed but the name and value allocations are not.

Neither the macOS bootloader nor Apple's EFI drivers check the protocol
version, but we do to avoid breakage if it's ever changed. It's been the
same since at least OS X 10.6 (2009).

The get_all() function conveniently fills a buffer with all properties
in marshalled form which can be passed to the kernel as a setup_data
payload. The number of device properties is dynamic and can change
between a first invocation of get_all() (to determine the buffer size)
and a second invocation (to retrieve the actual buffer), hence the
peculiar loop which does not finish until the buffer size settles.
The macOS bootloader does the same.

The setup_data payload is later on unmarshalled in an fs_initcall. The
idea is that most buses instantiate devices in "subsys" initcall level
and drivers are usually bound to these devices in "device" initcall
level, so we assign the properties in-between, i.e. in "fs" initcall
level.

This assumes that devices to which properties pertain are instantiated
from a "subsys" initcall or earlier. That should always be the case
since on macOS, AppleACPIPlatformExpert::matchEFIDevicePath() only
supports ACPI and PCI nodes and we've fully scanned those buses during
"subsys" initcall level.

The second assumption is that properties are only needed from a "device"
initcall or later. Seems reasonable to me, but should this ever not work
out, an alternative approach would be to store the property sets e.g. in
a btree early during boot. Then whenever device_add() is called, an EFI
Device Path would have to be constructed for the newly added device,
and looked up in the btree. That way, the property set could be assigned
to the device immediately on instantiation. And this would also work for
devices instantiated in a deferred fashion. It seems like this approach
would be more complicated and require more code. That doesn't seem
justified without a specific use case.

For comparison, the strategy on macOS is to assign properties to objects
in the ACPI namespace (AppleACPIPlatformExpert::mergeEFIProperties()).
That approach is definitely wrong as it fails for devices not present in
the namespace: The NHI EFI driver supplies properties for attached
Thunderbolt devices, yet on Macs with Thunderbolt 1 only one device
level behind the host controller is described in the namespace.
Consequently macOS cannot assign properties for chained devices. With
Thunderbolt 2 they started to describe three device levels behind host
controllers in the namespace but this grossly inflates the SSDT and
still fails if the user daisy-chained more than three devices.

We copy the property names and values from the setup_data payload to
swappable virtual memory and afterwards make the payload available to
the page allocator. This is just for the sake of good housekeeping, it
wouldn't occupy a meaningful amount of physical memory (4444 bytes on my
machine). Only the payload is freed, not the setup_data header since
otherwise we'd break the list linkage and we cannot safely update the
predecessor's -&gt;next link because there's no locking for the list.

The payload is currently not passed on to kexec'ed kernels, same for PCI
ROMs retrieved by setup_efi_pci(). This can be added later if there is
demand by amending setup_efi_state(). The payload can then no longer be
made available to the page allocator of course.

Tested-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt; [MacBookPro9,1]
Tested-by: Pierre Moreau &lt;pierre.morrow@free.fr&gt; [MacBookPro11,3]
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner &lt;lukas@wunner.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Andreas Noever &lt;andreas.noever@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Pedro Vilaça &lt;reverser@put.as&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161112213237.8804-9-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/boot: Simplify the GDTR calculation assembly code a bit</title>
<updated>2016-11-07T07:33:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>richard.weiyang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-01T15:49:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=064025f7ea1ebcd9bbb99cfa9492a803e8b01d36'/>
<id>064025f7ea1ebcd9bbb99cfa9492a803e8b01d36</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch calculates the GDTR's base address via a single instruction.

( EBP contains the address where it is loaded and GDTR's base address is
  already set to "gdt" in compilation. It is fine to get the correct base
  address by adding the delta to GDTR's base address. )

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478015364-5547-1-git-send-email-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This patch calculates the GDTR's base address via a single instruction.

( EBP contains the address where it is loaded and GDTR's base address is
  already set to "gdt" in compilation. It is fine to get the correct base
  address by adding the delta to GDTR's base address. )

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478015364-5547-1-git-send-email-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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