Hi Ard,

AFAIK, the latest Ampere Software Release Package (SRP) release has been already fixed this runtime issue.

Regards,
Nhi
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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 8:38 PM
To: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io>; Nhi Pham OS <nhi@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Chuong Tran OS <chuong@amperemail.onmicrosoft.com>; quic_llindhol@quicinc.com <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>; Chuong Tran OS <chuong@os.amperecomputing.com>; Rebecca Cran OS <rebecca@os.amperecomputing.com>
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] AmpereAltraPkg/FlashLib: Fix kernel crash if not call SetVirtualAddressMap()

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 10:48, Nhi Pham via groups.io
<nhi=os.amperecomputing.com@groups.io> wrote:
>
> Pushed as 03d3395552c5
>

Thanks for finally providing a fix for this!

Is there any way to detect whether a firmware build has this fix?


> ________________________________
> From: Chuong Tran OS <chuong@amperemail.onmicrosoft.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 3:25 PM
> To: Nhi Pham OS <nhi@os.amperecomputing.com>; devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io>
> Cc: quic_llindhol@quicinc.com <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>; Chuong Tran OS <chuong@os.amperecomputing.com>; Rebecca Cran OS <rebecca@os.amperecomputing.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] AmpereAltraPkg/FlashLib: Fix kernel crash if not call SetVirtualAddressMap()
>
> Acked-by: Chuong Tran <chuong@os.amperecomputing.com>
>
> Thanks,
> Chuong
>
> On 8/14/2024 10:22 AM, Nhi Pham wrote:
> > From: Chuong Tran <chuong@os.amperecomputing.com>
> >
> > OS kernel with greater than or equal to 48-bit VA space avoids EFI's
> > SetVirtualAddressMap() runtime service on Arm64 and simply uses the 1:1
> > address mapping that UEFI used at booting. However, AmpereAltraPkg's
> > RuntimeFlashLib replies on function call SetVirtualAddressMap() to
> > determine whether it is in boot time or run-time. If
> > SetVirtualAddressMap() has not been called prior, it causes the kernel
> > crash. This patch fixes that issue by removing the separation between
> > UEFI boot time and run-time in RuntimeFlashLib.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nhi Pham <nhi@os.amperecomputing.com>
> > ---
> >   Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/FlashLibCommon.c  | 11 +++--------
> >   Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/RuntimeFlashLib.c |  2 --
> >   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/FlashLibCommon.c b/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/FlashLibCommon.c
> > index 83695c857a11..0b000c2aad46 100644
> > --- a/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/FlashLibCommon.c
> > +++ b/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/FlashLibCommon.c
> > @@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
> >
> >   #include "FlashLibCommon.h"
> >
> > -BOOLEAN                       gFlashLibRuntime = FALSE;
> >   UINT8                         *gFlashLibPhysicalBuffer;
> >   UINT8                         *gFlashLibVirtualBuffer;
> >
> > @@ -34,13 +33,9 @@ ConvertToPhysicalBuffer (
> >     IN UINT32 Size
> >     )
> >   {
> > -  if (gFlashLibRuntime) {
> > -    ASSERT (VirtualPtr != NULL);
> > -    CopyMem (gFlashLibVirtualBuffer, VirtualPtr, Size);
> > -    return gFlashLibPhysicalBuffer;
> > -  }
> > -
> > -  return VirtualPtr;
> > +  ASSERT (VirtualPtr != NULL);
> > +  CopyMem (gFlashLibVirtualBuffer, VirtualPtr, Size);
> > +  return gFlashLibPhysicalBuffer;
> >   }
> >
> >   /**
> > diff --git a/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/RuntimeFlashLib.c b/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/RuntimeFlashLib.c
> > index 2dcd13e08146..14cef8e17ece 100644
> > --- a/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/RuntimeFlashLib.c
> > +++ b/Silicon/Ampere/AmpereAltraPkg/Library/FlashLib/RuntimeFlashLib.c
> > @@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ FlashLibAddressChangeEvent (
> >   {
> >     gRT->ConvertPointer (0x0, (VOID **)&gFlashLibVirtualBuffer);
> >     gRT->ConvertPointer (0x0, (VOID **)&mMmCommunicationProtocol);
> > -
> > -  gFlashLibRuntime = TRUE;
> >   }
> >
> >   /**
>
> 


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