linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi: don't issue error message when booted under xen

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Message-ID: <20170515125258.GA2935@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Date:   Mon, 15 May 2017 13:52:58 +0100
From:   Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de, ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: don't issue error message when booted under xen

On Mon, 08 May, at 02:56:33PM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> When booted as Xen dom0 there won't be an EFI memmap allocated. Avoid
> issuing an error message in this case:
> 
> [    0.144079] efi: Failed to allocate new EFI memmap
> 
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Thanks. I've applied this for the urgent branch because it's trivial
and we've had issues before where these kinds of error messages mess
up an otherwise clean boot screen.