Re: [PATCH v3.1 0/4] arm64: kexec,kdump: fix boot failures on acpi-only system

From: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	"Baicar, Tyler" <tbaicar@codeaurora.org>,
	Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Al Stone <al.stone@linaro.org>,
	Graeme Gregory <graeme.gregory@linaro.org>,
	Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro.org>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3.1 0/4] arm64: kexec,kdump: fix boot failures on acpi-only system
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:12:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717051222.GA11258@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9PT75XTXGsh1jc5roRO_d2QYKEamq42mfbsXzmerAUzA@mail.gmail.com>

Will,

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 07:49:45AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 13 July 2018 at 02:34, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 05:49:19PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> >> Hi Akashi,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:42:25AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> >> > This patch series is a set of bug fixes to address kexec/kdump
> >> > failures which are sometimes observed on ACPI-only system and reported
> >> > in LAK-ML before.
> >>
> >> I tried picking this up, along with Ard's fixup, but I'm seeing a build
> >> failure for allmodconfig:
> >>
> >> arch/arm64/kernel/acpi.o: In function `__acpi_get_mem_attribute':
> >> acpi.c:(.text+0x60): undefined reference to `efi_mem_attributes'
> >>
> >> I didn't investigate further. Please can you fix this?
> >
> > Because CONFIG_ACPI is on and CONFIG_EFI is off.
> >
> > This can happen in allmodconfig as CONFIG_EFI depends on
> > !CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN, which is actually on in this case.
> >
> 
> Allowing both CONFIG_ACPI and CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to be configured
> makes no sense at all. Things will surely break if you start using BE
> memory accesses while parsing ACPI tables.
> 
> Allowing CONFIG_ACPI without CONFIG_EFI makes no sense either, since
> on arm64, the only way to find the ACPI tables is through a UEFI
> configuration table.

Do you agree to this?

-Takahiro AKASHI

> > Looking at __acpi_get_mem_attributes(), since there is no information
> > available on memory attributes, what we can do at best is
> >   * return PAGE_KERNEL (= cacheable) for mapped memory,
> >   * return DEVICE_nGnRnE (= non-cacheable) otherwise
> > (See a hunk to be applied on top of my patch#4.)
> >
> > I think that, after applying, acpi_os_ioremap() would work almost
> > in the same way as the original before my patchset given that
> > MAP memblock attribute is used only under CONFIG_EFI for now.
> >
> > Make sense?
> >
> 
> Let's keep your code as is but fix the Kconfig dependencies instead.