linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

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Message-ID: <20140822081547.GA7903@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:15:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes


* Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> wrote:

> Hi guys, please pull the following fixes, which trade the locking
> WARN_ON()s in the efivars code for the more usual lockdep_*() functions
> and an arm64 EFI change that allows the gamut of runtime services to be
> invoked.
> 
> The following changes since commit 7d1311b93e58ed55f3a31cc8f94c4b8fe988a2b9:
> 
>   Linux 3.17-rc1 (2014-08-16 10:40:26 -0600)
> 
> 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 6a7519e81321343165f89abb8b616df186d3e57a:
> 
>   efi/arm64: Store Runtime Services revision (2014-08-22 08:45:41 +0100)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>  * WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked()) always triggers on non-SMP machines.
>    Swap it for the more canonical lockdep_assert_held() which always
>    does the right thing - Guenter Roeck
> 
>  * Assign the correct value to efi.runtime_version on arm64 so that all
>    the runtime services can be invoked - Semen Protsenko
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Guenter Roeck (1):
>       firmware: Do not use WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked())
> 
> Semen Protsenko (1):
>       efi/arm64: Store Runtime Services revision
> 
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c     | 2 ++
>  drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c | 8 ++++----
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Pulled into tip:x86/urgent, thanks Matt!

	Ingo
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