[PATCH v5 0/6] RISC-V DT related fixes for reserved memory & UEFI

[Rick Chen <rickchen36@gmail.com>]

<rick@andestech.com> ? 2020?4?17? ?? ??8:39???
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Atish Patra [mailto:atishp at atishpatra.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 7:18 AM
> To: Bin Meng
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel; Heinrich Schuchardt; U-Boot Mailing List; Anup Patel; Lukas Auer; Alexander Graf; Rick Jian-Zhi Chen(???); Palmer Dabbelt
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] RISC-V DT related fixes for reserved memory & UEFI
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> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:42 PM Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi Atish,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:02 AM Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:35 AM Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:51 PM Ard Biesheuvel
> > > > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
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> > > > > On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 08:46, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 4/6/20 11:01 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > > > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 22:45, Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >> This series adds few DT related fixes required for Linux
> > > > > > >> EFI stub to work on RISC-V.
> > > > > > >>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, since DT reserved
> > > > > > > memory regions are not used by EFI. If you want to reserve
> > > > > > > memory on a UEFI system, you have to reserve it in the UEFI memory map from firmware.
> > > > > > > The DT reserved-memory node is taken into account too late,
> > > > > > > the /memreserve/ entries are ignored entirely.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello Ard,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks for reviewing.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What do you mean by "The DT reserved-memory node is taken into
> > > > > > account too late"?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cf. commit 7be64b885a36 ("cmd: bootefi: Parse reserved-memory
> > > > > > node from DT")
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What I mean is that the EFI stub in Linux uses memory allocation
> > > > > functions, expecting the firmware to ensure that those
> > > > > allocations do not conflict with memory descriptions and
> > > > > reservations in DT. So if the firmware wants to express this
> > > > > redundantly, by passing reservations in both reserved-memory and
> > > > > in the EFI memory map, that is probably fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, I must sheepishly admit that I only realize now that this
> > > > > patch set is against u-boot not Linux :-)
> > > > >
> > > > :)
> > > >
> > > > > So if fixed reserved-memory regions are only being used to seed
> > > > > the reserved regions in the EFI memory map, you can safely ignore me.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah. That's the purpose. Having reserved memory nodes in the
> > > > final DT used by linux also ensures that proper Linux adds a
> > > > reserved memory block or removes it from memblock entries
> > > > depending on "no-map" property.
> > > >
> > > > > Apologies for the noise.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Atish
> > >
> > > Any other comments on the series ? It would be great if this series
> > > could be merged before
> > > v2020.07 release.
> >
> > I hope so if no one objects the proposed solution here in U-Boot vs.
> > the PMP SBI extension. I need have another look at the latest version
> > of patches though.
> >
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> Thanks. As far as I know, there is no opposition to the current approach adopted in U-Boot.
> I am hoping EFI stub series can be merged before 5.8. If this series can go in v2020.07, RISC-V will have all required support to boot via EFI from Linux kernel v5.8 and U-Boot v2020.07.

OK!
I will pull and send a PR ASAP.

Thanks,
Rick