linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH V4 0/3] Add efi page fault handler to recover from page

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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 18:32:21 +0000
From:   "Prakhya, Sai Praneeth" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
CC:     linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Neri, Ricardo" <ricardo.neri@...el.com>,
        Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        Al Stone <astone@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH V4 0/3] Add efi page fault handler to recover from page

> > The efi page fault handler will check if the access is by
> > efi_reset_system().
> > 1. If so, then the efi page fault handler will reboot the machine
> >    through BIOS and not through efi_reset_system().
> > 2. If not, then the efi page fault handler will freeze efi_rts_wq and
> >    schedules a new process.
> >
> 
> Thanks Sai! I am pretty happy how this patch set turned out. It still requires the
> blessing of the x86 maintainers, of course, but from my pov, this is good to go
> (but I will fold patch #3 into #2)

Hopefully, patch #3 goes away too.. in V5.

Regards,
Sai