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Ard Biesheuvel 119a34527e arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware 
[ Upstream commit e8dfdf3162 ]

Unlike x86, which has machinery to deal with page faults that occur
during the execution of EFI runtime services, arm64 has nothing like
that, and a synchronous exception raised by firmware code brings down
the whole system.

With more EFI based systems appearing that were not built to run Linux
(such as the Windows-on-ARM laptops based on Qualcomm SOCs), as well as
the introduction of PRM (platform specific firmware routines that are
callable just like EFI runtime services), we are more likely to run into
issues of this sort, and it is much more likely that we can identify and
work around such issues if they don't bring down the system entirely.

Since we already use a EFI runtime services call wrapper in assembler,
we can quite easily add some code that captures the execution state at
the point where the call is made, allowing us to revert to this state
and proceed execution if the call triggered a synchronous exception.

Given that the kernel and the firmware don't share any data structures
that could end up in an indeterminate state, we can happily continue
running, as long as we mark the EFI runtime services as unavailable from
that point on.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Stable-dep-of: 8a9a1a1873 ("arm64: efi: Avoid workqueue to check whether EFI runtime is live")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
arch arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
block block: mq-deadline: Rename deadline_is_seq_writes() 2023-01-24 07:24:44 +01:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto crypto: tcrypt - Fix multibuffer skcipher speed test mem leak 2022-12-31 13:32:34 +01:00
Documentation docs: Fix path paste-o for /sys/kernel/warn_count 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
drivers arm64: efi: Recover from synchronous exceptions occurring in firmware 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
fs btrfs: zoned: enable metadata over-commit for non-ZNS setup 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
include platform/x86: simatic-ipc: add another model 2023-02-01 08:34:33 +01:00
init gcc: disable -Warray-bounds for gcc-11 too 2023-01-14 10:33:43 +01:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: don't reissue in case of poll race on multishot request 2023-01-24 07:24:37 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel kcsan: test: don't put the expect array on the stack 2023-02-01 08:34:29 +01:00
lib lockref: stop doing cpu_relax in the cmpxchg loop 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
net tcp: fix rate_app_limited to default to 1 2023-02-01 08:34:27 +01:00
rust Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
samples samples: vfio-mdev: Fix missing pci_disable_device() in mdpy_fb_probe() 2022-12-31 13:32:42 +01:00
scripts - Handle different output of readelf on different distros running 2022-11-27 12:08:17 -08:00
security tomoyo: fix broken dependency on *.conf.default 2023-02-01 08:34:06 +01:00
sound ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: Fix naming of AC'97 CODEC widgets 2023-02-01 08:34:31 +01:00
tools Revert "selftests/bpf: check null propagation only neither reg is PTR_TO_BTF_ID" 2023-02-01 08:34:34 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-dwmw2-fixes' into HEAD 2022-11-23 18:59:45 -05:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs 2023-01-24 07:24:41 +01:00
Makefile kbuild: fix 'make modules' error when CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y 2023-02-01 08:34:08 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.