linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] x86, efi: Push EFI

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Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 05:32:41 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vishal L Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/10] x86, efi: Push EFI_MEMMAP check into leaf routines

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 2:06 AM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 at 03:06, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> >
> > In preparation for adding another EFI_MEMMAP dependent call that needs
> > to occur before e820__memblock_setup() fixup the existing efi calls to
> > check for EFI_MEMMAP internally. This ends up being cleaner than the
> > alternative of checking EFI_MEMMAP multiple times in setup_arch().
> >
> > Cc: <x86@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> > Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
>
> I'd prefer it if the spurious whitespace changes could be dropped, but
> otherwise, this looks fine to me, so I am not going to obsess about
> it.

Fair point, I'll drop those when I resubmit after -rc1.

> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>

Thanks!