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diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index ad28540..3c1f3cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)
* This function will switch the EFI runtime services to virtual mode.
* Essentially, we look through the EFI memmap and map every region that
* has the runtime attribute bit set in its memory descriptor into the
- * ->trampoline_pgd page table using a top-down VA allocation scheme.
+ * efi_pgd page table.
*
* The old method which used to update that memory descriptor with the
* virtual address obtained from ioremap() is still supported when the
@@ -879,8 +879,8 @@ static void __init kexec_enter_virtual_mode(void)
*
* The new method does a pagetable switch in a preemption-safe manner
* so that we're in a different address space when calling a runtime
- * function. For function arguments passing we do copy the PGDs of the
- * kernel page table into ->trampoline_pgd prior to each call.
+ * function. For function arguments passing we do copy the PUDs of the
+ * kernel page table into efi_pgd prior to each call.
*
* Specially for kexec boot, efi runtime maps in previous kernel should
* be passed in via setup_data. In that case runtime ranges will be mapped
@@ -895,6 +895,12 @@ static void __init __efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
efi.systab = NULL;
+ if (efi_alloc_page_tables()) {
+ pr_err("Failed to allocate EFI page tables\n");
+ clear_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
+ return;
+ }
+
efi_merge_regions();
new_memmap = efi_map_regions(&count, &pg_shift);
if (!new_memmap) {
@@ -954,28 +960,11 @@ static void __init __efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
efi_runtime_mkexec();
/*
- * We mapped the descriptor array into the EFI pagetable above but we're
- * not unmapping it here. Here's why:
- *
- * We're copying select PGDs from the kernel page table to the EFI page
- * table and when we do so and make changes to those PGDs like unmapping
- * stuff from them, those changes appear in the kernel page table and we
- * go boom.
- *
- * From setup_real_mode():
- *
- * ...
- * trampoline_pgd[0] = init_level4_pgt[pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET)].pgd;
- *
- * In this particular case, our allocation is in PGD 0 of the EFI page
- * table but we've copied that PGD from PGD[272] of the EFI page table:
- *
- * pgd_index(__PAGE_OFFSET = 0xffff880000000000) = 272
- *
- * where the direct memory mapping in kernel space is.
- *
- * new_memmap's VA comes from that direct mapping and thus clearing it,
- * it would get cleared in the kernel page table too.
+ * We mapped the descriptor array into the EFI pagetable above
+ * but we're not unmapping it here because if we're running in
+ * EFI mixed mode we need all of memory to be accessible when
+ * we pass parameters to the EFI runtime services in the
+ * thunking code.
*
* efi_cleanup_page_tables(__pa(new_memmap), 1 << pg_shift);
*/