Re: [RFC] efi: Add ACPI_MEMORY_NVS into the linear map

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Mon Feb 19 2024 - 23:10:11 EST


On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:49:32AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:51:06PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > Currently ACPI_MEMORY_NVS is omitted from the linear map, which causes
> > a trouble with the following firmware memory region setup:
> >
> > [..] efi: 0x0000dfd62000-0x0000dfd83fff [ACPI Reclaim|...]
> > [..] efi: 0x0000dfd84000-0x0000dfd87fff [ACPI Mem NVS|...]
> >
> > , on ARM64 with 64k page size, the whole 0x0000dfd80000-0x0000dfd8ffff
> > range will be omitted from the the linear map due to 64k round-up. And
> > a page fault happens when trying to access the ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY:
> >
> > [...] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0000dfd80000
> >
> > To fix this, add ACPI_MEMORY_NVS into the linear map.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.15+
>
> What commit id does this fix? Can you include that as well?
>

It should be 7aff79e297ee ("Drivers: hv: Enable Hyper-V code to be built
on ARM64"), but as Ard mentioned earlier, this could be fixed at the VM
firmware, and Oliver is working on that. Should the situation change, I
will send a V2 with more information and include the commit id.

Regards,
Boqun

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h