Thread (15 messages) 15 messages, 4 authors, 2025-07-15

Re: [RFC PATCH 7/7] arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption

From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-07-15 00:46:57
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On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 at 20:55, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:20:30PM +1000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 at 23:48, Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref] wrote:
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Is the migrate_disable() strictly required, or just paranoia?
Runtime services might be polling the secure firmware for an async
completion when they are interrupted, and so I don't think it is
generally safe to assume that an interrupted EFI runtime service can
be resumed on another CPU.
Can we please get a comment with that migrate_disable() explaining this?
Sure
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