linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] efi/libstub: Use efi_exit_boot

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:43:33 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] efi/libstub: Use efi_exit_boot_services() in FDT


* Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@...eaurora.org>
> 
> The FDT code directly calls ExitBootServices.  This is inadvisable as the
> UEFI spec details a complex set of errors, race conditions, and API
> interactions that the caller of ExitBootServices must get correct.  The
> FDT code does not handle EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER as required by the spec,
> which causes intermittent boot failures on the Qualcomm Technologies
> QDF2432.  The efi_exit_boot_services() helper handles the
> EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER scenario.

So I had to look twice to understand what this commit tries to do.

Had it ended with this sentence:

> Call the efi_exit_boot_services() helper intead, which handles the 
> EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER scenario properly.

I wouldn't have looked twice! ;-)

> +	/*
> +	 * Update the memory map with virtual addresses. The function will also
> +	 * populate @runtime_map with copies of just the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME
> +	 * entries so that we can pass it straight into SetVirtualAddressMap()

s/straight to

?

Thanks,

	Ingo