linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 11/26] efi: Let architectures decide the flags that should be saved/restored

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Message-ID: <20190118162622.GJ118707@arrakis.emea.arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:26:22 +0000
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, mark.rutland@....com,
        daniel.thompson@...aro.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        christoffer.dall@....com, james.morse@....com,
        joel@...lfernandes.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 11/26] efi: Let architectures decide the flags that
 should be saved/restored

On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 02:07:29PM +0000, Julien Thierry wrote:
> Currently, irqflags are saved before calling runtime services and
> checked for mismatch on return.
> 
> Provide a pair of overridable macros to save and restore (if needed) the
> state that need to be preserved on return from a runtime service.
> This allows to check for flags that are not necesarly related to
> irqflags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@....com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>