linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES

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Message-ID: <20161207132659.GV20785@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:26:59 +0000
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jlee@...e.com, bp@...en8.de, ricardo.neri@...el.com,
        ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, ravi.v.shankar@...el.com,
        fenghua.yu@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86

On Tue, 06 Dec, at 11:15:59AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:
> From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
> 
> UEFI v2.6 introduces EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE which describes memory 
> protections that may be applied to EFI Runtime code and data regions by 
> kernel. This helps kernel to map efi runtime regions more strictly and 
> hence allowing only appropriate accesses to these regions. Please refer 
> to "EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE" in section 4.6 of UEFI specification 
> v2.6 for more information on this table.
 
I guess this is v3 of your patch series right? Please be sure to
include a version tag in future like you did for you v2.