x86 boot: only pick up additional EFI memmap if add_efi_memmap flag

Applies on top of the previous patch:
  x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel

Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:

    add_efi_memmap

is specified.

Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <[email protected]>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Jackson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index da13d6d1b2b0a2ba5015590cd0266ce423632704..795c487af8e4dbbcdb0cedf5d048e7036bbb5ee0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2150,6 +2150,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
        usbhid.mousepoll=
                        [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at.
 
+       add_efi_memmap  [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in
+                       kernel's map of available physical RAM.
+
        vdso=           [X86-32,SH,x86-64]
                        vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
                        vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt
index 7d77120a51841aea77164a6aab2f682f10ca1a2d..a5e2b4fdb17049106f396a4bbc9f0bbff426cae3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt
@@ -36,3 +36,7 @@ Mechanics:
   services.
        noefi           turn off all EFI runtime services
        reboot_type=k   turn off EFI reboot runtime service
+- If the EFI memory map has additional entries not in the E820 map,
+  you can include those entries in the kernels memory map of available
+  physical RAM by using the following kernel command line parameter.
+       add_efi_memmap  include EFI memory map of available physical RAM

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
index a03ca36a302c473a7a1fd1cb86ac8f9cdd47f469..94382faeadb645a5ab9330880d83c842f61687d3 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/efi.c
@@ -64,6 +64,17 @@ static int __init setup_noefi(char *arg)
 }
 early_param("noefi", setup_noefi);
 
+int add_efi_memmap;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_efi_memmap);
+
+static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(char *arg)
+{
+       add_efi_memmap = 1;
+       return 0;
+}
+early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap);
+
+
 static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_time(efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc)
 {
        return efi_call_virt2(get_time, tm, tc);
@@ -219,7 +230,7 @@ unsigned long efi_get_time(void)
  * (zeropage) memory map.
  */
 
-static void __init add_efi_memmap(void)
+static void __init do_add_efi_memmap(void)
 {
        void *p;
 
@@ -406,7 +417,8 @@ void __init efi_init(void)
        if (memmap.desc_size != sizeof(efi_memory_desc_t))
                printk(KERN_WARNING "Kernel-defined memdesc"
                       "doesn't match the one from EFI!\n");
-       add_efi_memmap();
+       if (add_efi_memmap)
+               do_add_efi_memmap();
 
        /* Setup for EFI runtime service */
        reboot_type = BOOT_EFI;