On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:07:48PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote: > What you can see here are actually the EFI runtime service mappings, not > the ESP fix area. Check the addresses and compare them. You should find > similarities ;) And, in fact, the EFI mappings are incomplete in the > second dump, i.e. the vanilla kernel one, because of the enforced limit > for the ESP fix area. > > So, in your examples are actually *no* ESP fix area mappings as those > would be r/o. In fact, I think, the above dumps are the result of a > CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP enabled kernel that dumps the page table after > setting up the EFI mappings. There are no ESP fix mappings in this dump > because those are only set up after the EFI runtime service mappings.
Ok, I think I know what the deal is: So, the ptdump we do to dmesg very early at boot is the EFI pagetable which shouldn't have espfix mappings... > See the following code in init/main: > > #ifdef CONFIG_X86 > if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) > efi_enter_virtual_mode(); > #endif > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_ESPFIX64 > /* Should be run before the first non-init thread is created */ > init_espfix_bsp(); > #endif ... exactly because of this: we're setting up the EFI mappings in the EFI page table before we do the espfix mappings in the *kernel* pagetable which is a separate one. So, if we have to be really correct about it, the first dump to dmesg which comes down the efi_enter_virtual_mode() path shouldn't contain the espfix area at all. Later dumps from debugfs cannot select the EFI pagetable so they should not be dumping the EFI runtime services. I don't have a good idea about how to do that right now though, maybe the address markers should have flags or so... Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/