linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:36:32 +0100
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

Hi folks,
 
The following changes since commit eccaf52fee8305d5207ff110950a82c100e459bc:

  x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to zero (2013-05-14 08:13:05 +0100)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent

for you to fetch changes up to f8b8404337de4e2466e2e1139ea68b1f8295974f:

  Modify UEFI anti-bricking code (2013-06-10 21:59:37 +0100)

----------------------------------------------------------------
 * More tweaking to the EFI variable anti-bricking algorithm. Quite a
   few users were reporting boot regressions in v3.9. This has now been
   fixed with a more accurate "minimum storage requirement to avoid
   bricking" value from Samsung (5K instead of 50%) and code to trigger
   garbage collection when we near our limit - Matthew Garrett.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Matthew Garrett (1):
      Modify UEFI anti-bricking code

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c      |  47 ---------
 arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h            |   7 --
 arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bootparam.h |   1 -
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c           | 188 ++++++++++++----------------------
 4 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 178 deletions(-)

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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