[U-Boot] [PATCH 00/16] efi: Enable basic sandbox support for EFI loader

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Sep 25 02:15:57 UTC 2017


Hi Rob,

On 18 September 2017 at 09:07, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 9:18 AM, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 11:48 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt
>>>> <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>> On 09/18/2017 12:59 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
>>>>>> A limitation of the EFI loader at present is that it does not build with
>>>>>> sandbox. This makes it hard to write tests, since sandbox is used for most
>>>>>> testing in U-Boot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This series enables the EFI loader feature. It allows sandbox to build and
>>>>>> run a trivial function which calls the EFI API to output a message.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Much work remains but this should serve as a basis for adding tests more
>>>>>> easily for EFI loader.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This series sits on top of Heinrich's recent EFI test series. It is
>>>>>> available at u-boot-dm/efi-working
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Simon Glass (16):
>>>>>>   efi: Update efi_smbios_register() to return error code
>>>>>>   efi: Move the init check inside efi_init_obj_list()
>>>>>>   efi: Add error checking for efi_init_obj_list()
>>>>>>   efi: Add a TODO to efi_init_obj_list()
>>>>>>   efi: Correct header order in efi_memory
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Adjust memory setup for sandbox
>>>>>>   sandbox: smbios: Update to support sandbox
>>>>>>   sandbox: Add a setjmp() implementation
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Add required linker sections
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Add distroboot support
>>>>>>   Define board_quiesce_devices() in a shared location
>>>>>>   Add a comment for board_quiesce_devices()
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Add relocation constants
>>>>>>   efi: Add a comment about duplicated ELF constants
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Enable EFI loader builder for sandbox
>>>>>>   efi: sandbox: Add a simple 'bootefi test' command
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  arch/arm/include/asm/u-boot-arm.h |  1 -
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/cpu/cpu.c            | 13 ++++++++++
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/cpu/os.c             | 17 ++++++++++++
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/cpu/u-boot.lds       | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/include/asm/setjmp.h | 21 +++++++++++++++
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/lib/Makefile         |  2 +-
>>>>>>  arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c       | 12 +++++++++
>>>>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/u-boot-x86.h |  1 -
>>>>>>  arch/x86/lib/bootm.c              |  4 ---
>>>>>>  cmd/bootefi.c                     | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>>>>>>  common/bootm.c                    |  4 +++
>>>>>>  configs/sandbox_defconfig         |  1 +
>>>>>>  include/bootm.h                   |  8 ++++++
>>>>>>  include/config_distro_bootcmd.h   |  2 +-
>>>>>>  include/efi_loader.h              | 13 ++++++++--
>>>>>>  include/os.h                      | 21 +++++++++++++++
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/Kconfig            | 12 ++++++++-
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/Makefile           |  1 +
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_boottime.c     |  4 +++
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c       | 33 +++++++++++++-----------
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_runtime.c      |  7 +++++
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_smbios.c       |  6 +++--
>>>>>>  lib/efi_loader/efi_test.c         | 17 ++++++++++++
>>>>>>  lib/smbios.c                      | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>>>>>  24 files changed, 277 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/include/asm/setjmp.h
>>>>>>  create mode 100644 arch/sandbox/lib/sections.c
>>>>>>  create mode 100644 lib/efi_loader/efi_test.c
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for enabling efi_loader on sandbox. That will make many things
>>>>> easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately
>>>>> efi_status_t EFIAPI efi_selftest(efi_handle_t image_handle,
>>>>>                                  struct efi_system_table *systab)
>>>>> {
>>>>> ...
>>>>>         boottime = systable->boottime;
>>>>> ...
>>>>>         ret = boottime->allocate_pool(EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA, map_size,
>>>>>                                       (void **)&memory_map);
>>>>> leads to a segmentation fault:
>>>>
>>>> I'm seeing something similar, because:
>>>>
>>>> (gdb) print gd->bd->bi_dram[0]
>>>> $2 = {start = 0, size = 134217728}
>>>>
>>>> u-boot expects 1:1 phys:virt mapping, so that probably won't work.
>>>
>>> The following quick hack works.. something similar could probably be
>>> smashed in to ""
>>>
>>> --------
>>> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>>> index cddafe2d43..da2079a4b1 100644
>>> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>>> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>>> @@ -459,9 +459,10 @@ int efi_memory_init(void)
>>>      unsigned long uboot_start, uboot_pages;
>>>      unsigned long uboot_stack_size = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
>>>
>>> -    efi_add_known_memory();
>>>
>>>      if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SANDBOX)) {
>>> +        efi_add_known_memory();
>>> +
>>>          /* Add U-Boot */
>>>          uboot_start = (gd->start_addr_sp - uboot_stack_size) &
>>>                  ~EFI_PAGE_MASK;
>>> @@ -476,6 +477,12 @@ int efi_memory_init(void)
>>>          runtime_pages = (runtime_end - runtime_start) >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>          efi_add_memory_map(runtime_start, runtime_pages,
>>>                     EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE, false);
>>> +    } else {
>>> +#define SZ_256M    0x10000000
>>> +        size_t sz = SZ_256M;
>>> +        void *ram = os_malloc(sz);
>>> +        efi_add_memory_map((uintptr_t)ram, sz >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT,
>>> +                   EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY, false);
>>>      }
>>>
>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_LOADER_BOUNCE_BUFFER
>>> --------
>>>
>>> With that I'm at least getting further..  efi_allocate_pool()
>>> eventually fails, possibly making every small memory allocation page
>>> aligned means that 256m isn't enough..
>>
>> Ok, still just as hacky, but works a bit better:
>>
>> ---------
>> diff --git a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>> index cddafe2d43..b546b5e35d 100644
>> --- a/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>> +++ b/lib/efi_loader/efi_memory.c
>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
>>  #include <linux/list_sort.h>
>>  #include <inttypes.h>
>>  #include <watchdog.h>
>> +#include <os.h>
>>
>>  DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
>>
>> @@ -459,9 +460,9 @@ int efi_memory_init(void)
>>      unsigned long uboot_start, uboot_pages;
>>      unsigned long uboot_stack_size = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
>>
>> -    efi_add_known_memory();
>> -
>>      if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SANDBOX)) {
>> +        efi_add_known_memory();
>> +
>>          /* Add U-Boot */
>>          uboot_start = (gd->start_addr_sp - uboot_stack_size) &
>>                  ~EFI_PAGE_MASK;
>> @@ -476,6 +477,14 @@ int efi_memory_init(void)
>>          runtime_pages = (runtime_end - runtime_start) >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
>>          efi_add_memory_map(runtime_start, runtime_pages,
>>                     EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE, false);
>> +    } else {
>> +#define SZ_4K    0x00001000
>> +#define SZ_256M    0x10000000
>> +        size_t sz = SZ_256M;
>> +        uintptr_t ram = (uintptr_t)os_malloc(sz + SZ_4K) + SZ_4K;
>> +        efi_add_memory_map(ram & ~EFI_PAGE_MASK, sz >> EFI_PAGE_SHIFT,
>> +                   EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY, false);
>> +        gd->start_addr_sp = ~0;
>>      }
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_LOADER_BOUNCE_BUFFER
>> ---------
>>
>> At this point it crashes in efi_load_pe() when it first tries to
>> dereference the address of the image passed in, ie. I'm running:
>>
>>   host bind 0 x86_64-sct.img
>>   load host 0:1 0x01000000 /efi/boot/shell.efi
>>   bootefi 0x01000000
>>
>> Not sure if there is a better way to pick an address to load into.  Or
>> maybe just assuming that PA==VA isn't a good idea in sandbox?
>>
>
> Ok, I realized there is map_sysmem().. which gets me further..
> efi_loader really expects identity mapping (PA==VA), and iirc this is
> what UEFI spec expects too so I wouldn't necessarily call it a bug in
> efi_loader.

Well we need to make it work :-)

In general casting an address to a pointer (or vice versa) should be
avoided in U-Boot now that we have map_sysmem(). It is incompatible
with sandbox.

Regards,
Simon


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