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authorStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>2018-08-30 15:43:44 -0600
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2018-09-23 21:55:29 +0200
commit0797f7f0b7e1d7853e2842ddc235ffef139fa792 (patch)
tree88c5bd96b35f8801385dedadc50848754daa4c83 /drivers
parent9b5e6396bff5ede22f880c38915da5538e8bd117 (diff)
ARM: tegra: reserve unmapped RAM so EFI doesn't use it
Tegra U-Boot ensures that board_get_usable_ram_top() never returns a value over 4GB, since some peripherals can't access such addresses. However, on systems with more than 2GB of RAM, RAM bank 1 does describe this extra RAM, so that Linux (or whatever OS) can use it, subject to DMA limitations. Since board_get_usable_ram_top() points at the top of RAM bank 0, the memory locations describes by RAM bank 1 are not mapped by U-Boot's MMU configuration, and so cannot be used for anything. For some completely inexplicable reason, U-Boot's EFI support ignores the value returned by board_get_usable_ram_top(), and EFI memory allocation routines will return values above U-Boot's RAM top. This causes U-Boot to crash when it accesses that RAM, since it isn't mapped by the MMU. One use-case where this happens is TFTP download of a file on Jetson TX1 (p2371-2180). This change explicitly tells the EFI code that this extra RAM should not be used, thus avoiding the crash. A previous attempt to make EFI honor board_get_usable_ram_top() was rejected. So, this patch will need to be replicated for any board that implements board_get_usable_ram_top(). Fixes: aa909462d018 ("efi_loader: efi_allocate_pages is too restrictive") Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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