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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
index 4480c06cade7..89d1146f5a6f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
for_each_efi_memory_desc(md) {
unsigned long long start = md->phys_addr;
unsigned long long size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+ size_t rm_size;
if (md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
@@ -263,6 +264,26 @@ void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
if (md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME)
continue;
+ /*
+ * Nasty quirk: if all sub-1MB memory is used for boot
+ * services, we can get here without having allocated the
+ * real mode trampoline. It's too late to hand boot services
+ * memory back to the memblock allocator, so instead
+ * try to manually allocate the trampoline if needed.
+ *
+ * I've seen this on a Dell XPS 13 9350 with firmware
+ * 1.4.4 with SGX enabled booting Linux via Fedora 24's
+ * grub2-efi on a hard disk. (And no, I don't know why
+ * this happened, but Linux should still try to boot rather
+ * panicing early.)
+ */
+ rm_size = real_mode_size_needed();
+ if (rm_size && (start + rm_size) < (1<<20) && size >= rm_size) {
+ set_real_mode_mem(start, rm_size);
+ start += rm_size;
+ size -= rm_size;
+ }
+
free_bootmem_late(start, size);
}