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author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2023-06-06 17:26:31 +0300 |
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committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2023-06-06 16:58:23 +0200 |
commit | 745e3ed85f71a6382a239b03d9278a8025f2beae (patch) | |
tree | af0b35cb1821223b4546dba8ec3453c75ef1f3e1 /include/linux/efi.h | |
parent | 2e9f46ee1599be8a50a5366eb3ef4a4b5acff0b7 (diff) | |
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efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory
UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory
acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD
SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the
guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual
Machine platform.
Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the
accepted guest physical address range. It's better to postpone memory
acceptance until memory is needed. It lowers boot time and reduces
memory overhead.
The kernel needs to know what memory has been accepted. Firmware
communicates this information via memory map: a new memory type --
EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY -- indicates such memory.
Range-based tracking works fine for firmware, but it gets bulky for
the kernel: e820 (or whatever the arch uses) has to be modified on every
page acceptance. It leads to table fragmentation and there's a limited
number of entries in the e820 table.
Another option is to mark such memory as usable in e820 and track if the
range has been accepted in a bitmap. One bit in the bitmap represents a
naturally aligned power-2-sized region of address space -- unit.
For x86, unit size is 2MiB: 4k of the bitmap is enough to track 64GiB or
physical address space.
In the worst-case scenario -- a huge hole in the middle of the
address space -- It needs 256MiB to handle 4PiB of the address
space.
Any unaccepted memory that is not aligned to unit_size gets accepted
upfront.
The bitmap is allocated and constructed in the EFI stub and passed down
to the kernel via EFI configuration table. allocate_e820() allocates the
bitmap if unaccepted memory is present, according to the size of
unaccepted region.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/efi.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/efi.h | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h index 571d1a6e1b74..8ffe451a6a2f 100644 --- a/include/linux/efi.h +++ b/include/linux/efi.h @@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ typedef struct { #define EFI_MEMORY_MAPPED_IO_PORT_SPACE 12 #define EFI_PAL_CODE 13 #define EFI_PERSISTENT_MEMORY 14 -#define EFI_MAX_MEMORY_TYPE 15 +#define EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY 15 +#define EFI_MAX_MEMORY_TYPE 16 /* Attribute values: */ #define EFI_MEMORY_UC ((u64)0x0000000000000001ULL) /* uncached */ @@ -417,6 +418,7 @@ void efi_native_runtime_setup(void); #define LINUX_EFI_MOK_VARIABLE_TABLE_GUID EFI_GUID(0xc451ed2b, 0x9694, 0x45d3, 0xba, 0xba, 0xed, 0x9f, 0x89, 0x88, 0xa3, 0x89) #define LINUX_EFI_COCO_SECRET_AREA_GUID EFI_GUID(0xadf956ad, 0xe98c, 0x484c, 0xae, 0x11, 0xb5, 0x1c, 0x7d, 0x33, 0x64, 0x47) #define LINUX_EFI_BOOT_MEMMAP_GUID EFI_GUID(0x800f683f, 0xd08b, 0x423a, 0xa2, 0x93, 0x96, 0x5c, 0x3c, 0x6f, 0xe2, 0xb4) +#define LINUX_EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEM_TABLE_GUID EFI_GUID(0xd5d1de3c, 0x105c, 0x44f9, 0x9e, 0xa9, 0xbc, 0xef, 0x98, 0x12, 0x00, 0x31) #define RISCV_EFI_BOOT_PROTOCOL_GUID EFI_GUID(0xccd15fec, 0x6f73, 0x4eec, 0x83, 0x95, 0x3e, 0x69, 0xe4, 0xb9, 0x40, 0xbf) @@ -534,6 +536,14 @@ struct efi_boot_memmap { efi_memory_desc_t map[]; }; +struct efi_unaccepted_memory { + u32 version; + u32 unit_size; + u64 phys_base; + u64 size; + unsigned long bitmap[]; +}; + /* * Architecture independent structure for describing a memory map for the * benefit of efi_memmap_init_early(), and for passing context between |