linux-toradex.git/include/linux/efi.h, branch v3.4.100

x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code

2014-06-07T23:02:10+00:00

commit a6e4d5a03e9e3587e88aba687d8f225f4f04c792 upstream.

Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.

efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
[xr: Backported to 3.4: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs

2014-06-07T23:02:10+00:00

commit a93bc0c6e07ed9bac44700280e65e2945d864fd4 upstream.

[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.

[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.

Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.

efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi 
Acked-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
[xr: Backported to 3.4:
  - Adjust contest
  - Remove repeated definition of helper function variable_is_present]
Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables

2014-06-07T23:02:09+00:00

commit 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd upstream.

UEFI variables are typically stored in flash. For various reasons, avaiable
space is typically not reclaimed immediately upon the deletion of a
variable - instead, the system will garbage collect during initialisation
after a reboot.

Some systems appear to handle this garbage collection extremely poorly,
failing if more than 50% of the system flash is in use. This can result in
the machine refusing to boot. The safest thing to do for the moment is to
forbid writes if they'd end up using more than half of the storage space.
We can make this more finegrained later if we come up with a method for
identifying the broken machines.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop efivarfs changes and unused check_var_size()
 - Add error codes to include/linux/efi.h, added upstream by
   commit 5d9db883761a ('efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem')
 - Add efi_status_to_err(), added upstream by commit 7253eaba7b17
   ('efivarfs: Return an error if we fail to read a variable')]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data

2014-06-07T23:02:09+00:00

commit d80a361d779a9f19498943d1ca84243209cd5647 upstream.

[Issue]

As discussed in a thread below, Running out of space in EFI isn't a well-tested scenario.
And we wouldn't expect all firmware to handle it gracefully.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134305325801789&w=2

On the other hand, current efi_pstore doesn't check a remaining space of storage at writing time.
Therefore, efi_pstore may not work if it tries to write a large amount of data.

[Patch Description]

To avoid handling the situation above, this patch checks if there is a space enough to log with
QueryVariableInfo() before writing data.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi 
Acked-by: Mike Waychison 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Cc: Rui Xiang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

2013-02-14T18:48:53+00:00

commit 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f upstream.

Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Corentin Chary 
Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Steve Langasek 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Defer freeing boot services memory until after ACPI init

2012-10-31T17:03:18+00:00

commit 785107923a83d8456bbd8564e288a24d84109a46 upstream.

Some new ACPI 5.0 tables reference resources stored in boot services
memory, so keep that memory around until we have ACPI and can extract
data from it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baaa6d44bdc4eb0c58e5d1b4ccd2c729f854ac55.1348876882.git.josh@joshtriplett.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi: Add new variable attributes

2012-04-30T22:30:18+00:00

More recent versions of the UEFI spec have added new attributes for
variables. Add them.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h

2012-03-28T17:30:03+00:00

Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h preparatory to splitting and killing
it.  Performed with the following command:

perl -p -i -e 's!^#\s*include\s*.*\n!!' `grep -Irl '^#\s*include\s*' *`

Signed-off-by: David Howells

x86, efi: Allow basic init with mixed 32/64-bit efi/kernel

2012-02-24T02:54:51+00:00

Traditionally the kernel has refused to setup EFI at all if there's been
a mismatch in 32/64-bit mode between EFI and the kernel.

On some platforms that boot natively through EFI (Chrome OS being one),
we still need to get at least some of the static data such as memory
configuration out of EFI. Runtime services aren't as critical, and
it's a significant amount of work to implement switching between the
operating modes to call between kernel and firmware for thise cases. So
I'm ignoring it for now.

v5:
* Fixed some printk strings based on feedback
* Renamed 32/64-bit specific types to not have _ prefix
* Fixed bug in printout of efi runtime disablement

v4:
* Some of the earlier cleanup was accidentally reverted by this patch, fixed.
* Reworded some messages to not have to line wrap printk strings

v3:
* Reorganized to a series of patches to make it easier to review, and
  do some of the cleanups I had left out before.

v2:
* Added graceful error handling for 32-bit kernel that gets passed
  EFI data above 4GB.
* Removed some warnings that were missed in first version.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329081869-20779-6-git-send-email-olof@lixom.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

efi: Add EFI file I/O data types

2011-12-10T01:35:51+00:00

The x86 EFI stub needs to access files, for example when loading
initrd's. Add the required data types.

Cc: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318848017-12301-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin