efi/unaccepted: Use ACPI reclaim memory for unaccepted memory table

Kyril reports that crashkernels fail to work on confidential VMs that
rely on the unaccepted memory table, and this appears to be

efi/unaccepted: Use ACPI reclaim memory for unaccepted memory table

Kyril reports that crashkernels fail to work on confidential VMs that
rely on the unaccepted memory table, and this appears to be caused by
the fact that it is not considered part of the set of firmware tables
that the crashkernel needs to map.

This is an oversight, and a result of the use of the EFI_LOADER_DATA
memory type for this table. The correct memory type to use for any
firmware table is EFI_ACPI_RECLAIM_MEMORY (including ones created by the
EFI stub), even though the name suggests that is it specific to ACPI.
ACPI reclaim means that the memory is used by the firmware to expose
information to the operating system, but that the memory region has no
special significance to the firmware itself, and the OS is free to
reclaim the memory and use it as ordinary memory if it is not interested
in the contents, or if it has already consumed them. In Linux, this
memory is never reclaimed, but it is always covered by the kernel direct
map and generally made accessible as ordinary memory.

On x86, ACPI reclaim memory is translated into E820_ACPI, which the
kexec logic already recognizes as memory that the crashkernel may need
to to access, and so it will be mapped and accessible to the booting
crash kernel.

Fixes: 745e3ed85f71 ("efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory")
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

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efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory

UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory
acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD
SEV-SNP, req

efi/libstub: Implement support for unaccepted memory

UEFI Specification version 2.9 introduces the concept of memory
acceptance: Some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD
SEV-SNP, requiring memory to be accepted before it can be used by the
guest. Accepting happens via a protocol specific for the Virtual
Machine platform.

Accepting memory is costly and it makes VMM allocate memory for the
accepted guest physical address range. It's better to postpone memory
acceptance until memory is needed. It lowers boot time and reduces
memory overhead.

The kernel needs to know what memory has been accepted. Firmware
communicates this information via memory map: a new memory type --
EFI_UNACCEPTED_MEMORY -- indicates such memory.

Range-based tracking works fine for firmware, but it gets bulky for
the kernel: e820 (or whatever the arch uses) has to be modified on every
page acceptance. It leads to table fragmentation and there's a limited
number of entries in the e820 table.

Another option is to mark such memory as usable in e820 and track if the
range has been accepted in a bitmap. One bit in the bitmap represents a
naturally aligned power-2-sized region of address space -- unit.

For x86, unit size is 2MiB: 4k of the bitmap is enough to track 64GiB or
physical address space.

In the worst-case scenario -- a huge hole in the middle of the
address space -- It needs 256MiB to handle 4PiB of the address
space.

Any unaccepted memory that is not aligned to unit_size gets accepted
upfront.

The bitmap is allocated and constructed in the EFI stub and passed down
to the kernel via EFI configuration table. allocate_e820() allocates the
bitmap if unaccepted memory is present, according to the size of
unaccepted region.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230606142637.5171-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com

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