[PATCH RFC 4/6] arm64/efi: Honor EFI_MEMORY_ISA_MASK for Device-nGnRnE vs -nGnRE

Sven Peter <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:15:40 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-efi,dev.linux.lists.asahi,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.feeds.b4-sent,org.kernel.vger.linux-devicetree,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apple Silicon, access to MMIO requires Device-nGnRnE while Device-nGnRE
results in SErrors. UEFI defines the EFI_MEMORY_ISA_MASK for cases like
that which just contains the MAIR attribute bits. We cannot support any
other Device- types without changing MAIR so just warn and fall back to
the previous default, Device-nGnRE, if we encounter anything else.

Signed-off-by: Sven Peter <[email protected]>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
index e40885567f9e..50ba8e9112fc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  * Copyright (C) 2013, 2014 Linaro Ltd.
  */
 
+#include <linux/bitfield.h>
 #include <linux/efi.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 
 #include <asm/efi.h>
 #include <asm/stacktrace.h>
+#include <asm/sysreg.h>
 #include <asm/vmap_stack.h>
 
 
@@ -38,7 +40,27 @@ static __init ptval_t create_mapping_protection(efi_memory_desc_t *md)
 	u32 type = md->type;
 
 	if (type == EFI_MEMORY_MAPPED_IO) {
-		pgprot_t prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE);
+		pgprot_t prot;
+
+		if (attr & EFI_MEMORY_ISA_VALID) {
+			u8 mair = FIELD_GET(EFI_MEMORY_ISA_MASK, attr);
+
+			switch (mair) {
+			case MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE_nGnRnE:
+				prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRnE);
+				break;
+			case MAIR_ATTR_DEVICE_nGnRE:
+				prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE);
+				break;
+			default:
+				prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE);
+				pr_warn("unsupported MAIR attribute %#x for EFI MMIO region at 0x%llx, using Device-nGnRE\n",
+					mair, md->phys_addr);
+				break;
+			}
+		} else {
+			prot = __pgprot(PROT_DEVICE_nGnRE);
+		}
 
 		if (arm64_is_protected_mmio(md->phys_addr,
 					    md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT))

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