[U-Boot] [PATCH V2 1/2] ARM: tegra: reserve unmapped RAM so EFI doesn't use it
Stephen Warren
swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Wed Aug 29 21:34:25 UTC 2018
From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
Tegra U-Boot ensures that board_get_usable_ram_top() never returns a value
over 4GB, since some peripherals can't access such addresses. However, on
systems with more than 2GB of RAM, RAM bank 1 does describe this extra
RAM, so that Linux (or whatever OS) can use it, subject to DMA
limitations. Since board_get_usable_ram_top() points at the top of RAM
bank 0, the memory locations describes by RAM bank 1 are not mapped by
U-Boot's MMU configuration, and so cannot be used for anything.
For some completely inexplicable reason, U-Boot's EFI support ignores the
value returned by board_get_usable_ram_top(), and EFI memory allocation
routines will return values above U-Boot's RAM top. This causes U-Boot to
crash when it accesses that RAM, since it isn't mapped by the MMU. One
use-case where this happens is TFTP download of a file on Jetson TX1
(p2371-2180).
This change explicitly tells the EFI code that this extra RAM should not
be used, thus avoiding the crash.
A previous attempt to make EFI honor board_get_usable_ram_top() was
rejected. So, this patch will need to be replicated for any board that
implements board_get_usable_ram_top().
Fixes: aa909462d018 ("efi_loader: efi_allocate_pages is too restrictive")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
---
v2:
- Don't hard-code EFI page size.
- Register RAM as a boot services data rather than reserved.
---
arch/arm/mach-tegra/board2.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board2.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board2.c
index 421a71b3014d..f893966140a1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board2.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/board2.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <common.h>
#include <dm.h>
+#include <efi_loader.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ns16550.h>
#include <usb.h>
@@ -210,6 +211,19 @@ int board_early_init_f(void)
int board_late_init(void)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_EFI_LOADER
+ if (gd->bd->bi_dram[1].start) {
+ /*
+ * Only bank 0 is below board_get_usable_ram_top(), so all of
+ * bank 1 is not mapped by the U-Boot MMU configuration, and so
+ * we must prevent EFI from using it.
+ */
+ efi_add_memory_map(gd->bd->bi_dram[1].start,
+ gd->bd->bi_dram[1].size / EFI_PAGE_SIZE,
+ EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA, false);
+ }
+#endif
+
#if defined(CONFIG_TEGRA_SUPPORT_NON_SECURE)
if (tegra_cpu_is_non_secure()) {
printf("CPU is in NS mode\n");
--
2.18.0
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