linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/3] efi interruptible runtime services

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:32:39 +0100
From:	Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@...il.com>
To:	sylvain.chouleur@...il.com
Cc:	Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@...el.com>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] efi interruptible runtime services

From: Sylvain Chouleur <sylvain.chouleur@...el.com>

Changes in v3:
 - efivars_(un)register: use down_interruptible()
 - efivar_create_sysfs_entry: unregister new_var in case of failure
 - efi_interruptible: in case of panic call directly legacy handlers

Sylvain Chouleur (3):
 efi: implement interruptible runtime services
 efi: don't use spinlocks for efi vars
 efi: use a file local lock for efivars

 arch/x86/Kconfig                          |   17 +++
 arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h                |    1 
 arch/x86/platform/efi/Makefile            |    1 
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c            |    5 +
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c            |    5 +
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_interruptible.c |  189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c         |   36 +++++--
 drivers/firmware/efi/efivars.c            |   22 +++-
 drivers/firmware/efi/vars.c               |  315 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 fs/efivarfs/inode.c                       |    5 -
 fs/efivarfs/super.c                       |    9 +
 include/linux/efi.h                       |   18 ---
 12 files changed, 463 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-)