Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 6 authors, 2013-11-15

[PATCH v2 2/3] arm: Add [U]EFI runtime services support

From: Leif Lindholm <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-17 14:31:18
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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:07:39PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
quoted
+/*
+ * If you need to (temporarily) support buggy firmware.
+ */
+#define KEEP_BOOT_SERVICES_REGIONS
Have you seen firmware that requires this? I'm just curious more than
anything else.
Not really.
I _think_ I saw it on a debug build of a development platform once.
That coincided with me seeing a post on linux-efi about some laptop
that broke unless boot services regions were preserved, so I decided
to put it in there for any future debugging.
 
quoted
+/*
+ * Returns 1 if 'facility' is enabled, 0 otherwise.
+ */
+int efi_enabled(int facility)
+{
+	return test_bit(facility, &arm_efi_facility) != 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(efi_enabled);
This should move to drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c. Let me write a patch
that moves the x86 stuff out of arch/x86 and means you can get rid of
this hunk.
 
Excellent, thanks!
quoted
+/*
+ * Called explicitly from init/mm.c
+ */
That's init/main.c.
 
*cough*, right.
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quoted
+void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
+{
+	efi_status_t status;
+
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT)) {
+		pr_info("EFI services will not be available.\n");
+		return;
This is dead code as PATCH 3 does,
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index af310af..ec6d76e 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -875,6 +875,10 @@ static noinline void __init
kernel_init_freeable(void)
	smp_prepare_cpus(setup_max_cpus);

	do_pre_smp_initcalls();
+
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) && efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT))
+		efi_enter_virtual_mode();
+
True.

However, this call site is likely to change in the future (preferably
to an early_initcall), if we redesign the memory mapping to be reusable
after kexec(). At which point the test in efi_enter_virtual_mode() will
make sense again.

Could I change the test in init/main.c to do
     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI))
instead?

/
    Leif
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