On 23 March 2017 at 03:27, Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com> wrote:
> EFI allocate runtime services regions from EFI_VA_START, -4G, down
> to -64G, EFI_VA_END.
OK, so is the size of the region 60 GB or 64 GB? This suggests 60 GB,
but the comment you update suggests 64 GB.
> The mechanism was introduced in
> commit d2f7cbe7b26a7 ("x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping").
>
> Clean it up to avoid confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
> Cc: x...@kernel.org
> Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> index a4695da..6cbf9e0 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
> #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
>
> /*
> - * We allocate runtime services regions bottom-up, starting from -4G, i.e.
> + * We allocate runtime services regions top-down, starting from -4G, i.e.
> * 0xffff_ffff_0000_0000 and limit EFI VA mapping space to 64G.
> */
> static u64 efi_va = EFI_VA_START;
> --
> 2.5.5
>
