Re: [PATCH V3] LoongArch: Add efistub booting support

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Mon, 5 Sept 2022 at 06:34, Youling Tang <tangyouling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, Ard & Huacai
>
> On 09/05/2022 11:50 AM, Huacai Chen wrote:
> > Hi, Ard,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 5:59 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, 4 Sept 2022 at 15:24, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi, Ard,
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 6:40 PM Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi, Ard,
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 3:14 PM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 06:41, Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Tested V3 with the magic number check manually removed in my GRUB build.
> >>>>>> The system boots successfully.  I've not tested Arnd's zBoot patch yet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am Ard not Arnd :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please use this branch when testing the EFI decompressor:
> >>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=efi-decompressor-v4
> >>>> The root cause of LoongArch zboot boot failure has been found, it is a
> >>>> binutils bug, latest toolchain with the below patch can solve the
> >>>> problem.
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/bfd/elfnn-loongarch.c b/bfd/elfnn-loongarch.c
> >>>> index 5b44901b9e0..fafdc7c7458 100644
> >>>> --- a/bfd/elfnn-loongarch.c
> >>>> +++ b/bfd/elfnn-loongarch.c
> >>>> @@ -2341,9 +2341,10 @@ loongarch_elf_relocate_section (bfd
> >>>> *output_bfd, struct bfd_link_info *info,
> >>>>      case R_LARCH_SOP_PUSH_PLT_PCREL:
> >>>>        unresolved_reloc = false;
> >>>>
> >>>> -      if (resolved_to_const)
> >>>> +      if (!is_undefweak && resolved_to_const)
> >>>>          {
> >>>>            relocation += rel->r_addend;
> >>>> +          relocation -= pc;
> >>>>            break;
> >>>>          }
> >>>>        else if (is_undefweak)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Huacai
> >>> Now the patch is submitted here:
> >>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-September/122713.html
> >>>
> >>
> >> Great. Given the severity of this bug, I imagine that building the
> >> LoongArch kernel will require a version of binutils that carries this
> >> fix.
> >>
> >> Therefore, i will revert back to the original approach for accessing
> >> uncompressed_size, using an extern declaration with an __aligned(1)
> >> attribute.
> >>
> >>> And I have some other questions about kexec: kexec should jump to the
> >>> elf entry or the pe entry? I think is the elf entry, because if we
> >>> jump to the pe entry, then SVAM will be executed twice (but it should
> >>> be executed only once). However, how can we jump to the elf entry if
> >>> we use zboot? Maybe it is kexec-tool's responsibility to decompress
> >>> the zboot kernel image?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes, very good point. Kexec kernels cannot boot via the EFI entry
> >> point, as the boot services will already be shutdown. So the kexec
> >> kernel needs to boot via the same entrypoint in the core kernel that
> >> the EFI stub calls when it hands over.
> >>
> >> For the EFI zboot image in particular, we will need to teach kexec how
> >> to decompress them. The zboot image has a header that
> >> a) describes it as a EFI linux zimg
> >> b) describes the start and end offset of the compressed payload
> >> c) describes which compression algorithm was used.
> >>
> >> This means that any non-EFI loader (including kexec) should be able to
> >> extract the inner PE/COFF image and decompress it. For arm64 and
> >> RISC-V, this is sufficient as the EFI and raw images are the same. For
> >> LoongArch, I suppose it means we need a way to enter the core kernel
> >> directly via the entrypoint that the EFI stub uses when handing over
> >> (and pass the original DT argument so the kexec kernel has access to
> >> the EFI and ACPI firmware tables)
> > OK, then is this implementation [1] acceptable? I remember that you
> > said the MS-DOS header shouldn't contain other information, so I guess
> > this is unacceptable?
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/c4dbb14a-5580-1e47-3d15-5d2079e88404@xxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mb8c1dc44f7fa2d3ef638877f0cd3f958f0be96ad
>
> Modifications to the MS-DOS header refer to the arm64 and riscv
> implementations [1], and to provide the necessary information to
> kexec-tools[2] when loading uncompressed efi images.
>

Indeed. On top of the EFI zboot series, we need some [generic!] kexec
plumbing to identify such compressed images, and decompress the
payload before passing the contents to the arch specific probe/load
image hooks.