Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:49:36 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] x86, ptdump: Add section for EFI runtime services | From | Mathias Krause <> |
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On 28 October 2014 22:26, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:14:25PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote: >> Oh, well. Have fun with that! I would take the "map kernel into EFI >> page table" route instead. ;) > > Actually, I want to try to keep them completely separate and sync only > before an EFI RT call for function arguments.
Sync only data or kernel code, too?
> And then remove PGDs after > I return from it. We'll see how it all works out.
That shouldn't be needed as you're switching away from the EFI page table, so its entries wouldn't be effective any more anyway.
Really, I'd just map the EFI RT service virtual mappings "somewhere" but at pgd[511] and have pgd[511] initially set up as init_level4_pgt[511]. Then, thing should "just work"(TM).
If you fear the EFI code might do harm to the kernel code/data, then you've lost anyway. Nothing will prevent the EFI code from doing nasty things -- like setting up its own mappings to tamper with the kernel's memory.
Regards, Mathias
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