linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:55:43 +0000
From:	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] EFI urgent fixes

Folks, please pull the following fixes. The revert addresses a
regression that Ard hit when booting Qemu and Xen, and the other patch
ensures that we don't triple fault when receiving an NMI or MCE during
an EFI mixed mode call, which may happen, for instance, when running
perf.

The pull is against tip/x86/efi because tip/x86/urgent doesn't contain
commit d1a8d66b9177 ("efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map
and desc sizes") needed for the revert.

If you'd prefer for me to resend this after the merge window closes,
just let me know.

The following changes since commit 3c01b74e818a7a3b2ee9b0d584cca0bc154a031c:

  Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi (2015-01-29 19:16:40 +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 43a9f69692b232d1c64c913a27507eb14a1c47fd:

  Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes" (2015-02-18 11:38:13 +0000)

----------------------------------------------------------------
 * Leave a valid 64-bit IDT installed during runtime EFI mixed mode
   calls to avoid triple faults if an NMI/MCE is received.

 * Revert Ard's change to the libstub get_memory_map() that went into
   the v3.20 merge window because it causes boot regressions on Qemu and
   Xen.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Matt Fleming (2):
      x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
      Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes"

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile              |   1 +
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_stub_64.S         |  25 ----
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_thunk_64.S        | 196 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_stub_64.S            | 161 --------------------
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_thunk_64.S           | 121 ++++++++++++---
 drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c |  16 +-
 6 files changed, 307 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/boot/compressed/efi_thunk_64.S

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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