x86/uv: Update uv_bios_call() to use efi_call_virt_pointer()
Now that the efi_call_virt() macro has been generalized to be able to use EFI system tables besides efi.systab, we are able to convert our uv_bios_call() wrapper to use this standard EFI callback mechanism. This simple change is part of a much larger effort to recover from some issues with the way we were mapping in some of our MMRs, and the way that we were doing our BIOS callbacks, which were uncovered by commit 67a9108e ("x86/efi: Build our own page table structures"). The first issue that this uncovered was that we were relying on the EFI memory mapping mechanism to map in our MMR space for us, which, while reliable, was technically a bug, as it relied on "undefined" behavior in the mapping code. The reason we were able to piggyback on the EFI memory mapping code to map in our MMRs was because, previously, EFI code used the trampoline_pgd, which shares a few entries with the main kernel pgd. It just so happened, that the memory range containing our MMRs was inside one of those shared regions, which kept our code working without issue for quite a while. Anyways, once we discovered this problem, we brought back our original code to map in the MMRs with commit: 08914f43 ("x86/platform/UV: Bring back the call to map_low_mmrs in uv_system_init") This got our systems a little further along, but we were still running into trouble with our EFI callbacks, which prevented us from booting all the way up. Our first step towards fixing the BIOS callbacks was to get our uv_bios_call() wrapper updated to use efi_call_virt() instead of the plain efi_call(). The previous patch took care of the effort needed to make that possible. Along the way, we hit a major issue with some confusion about how to properly pull arguments higher than number 6 off the stack in the efi_call() code, which resulted in the following commit from Linus: 683ad809 ("x86/efi: Fix 7-parameter efi_call()s") Now that all of those issues are out of the way, we're able to make this simple change to use the new efi_call_virt_pointer() in uv_bios_call() which gets our machines booting, running properly, and able to execute our callbacks with 6+ arguments. Note that, since we are now using the EFI page table when we make our function call, we are no longer able to make the call using the __va() of our function pointer, since the memory range containing that address isn't mapped into the EFI page table. For now, we will use the physical address of the function directly, since that is mapped into the EFI page table. In the near future, we're going to get some code added in to properly update our function pointer to its virtual address during SetVirtualAddressMap. Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466839230-12781-6-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.ukSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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