linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] efi: avoid error message when booting under Xen

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Message-ID: <170e01b1-220d-5cb7-03b2-c70ed3ae58e4@samsung.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:16:57 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] efi: avoid error message when booting under Xen


[ added EFI Maintainer & ML to Cc: ]

Hi,

On 7/9/20 11:17 AM, Jürgen Groß wrote:
> On 28.06.20 10:50, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>> Ping?
>>
>> On 10.06.20 16:10, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> efifb_probe() will issue an error message in case the kernel is booted
>>> as Xen dom0 from UEFI as EFI_MEMMAP won't be set in this case. Avoid
>>> that message by calling efi_mem_desc_lookup() only if EFI_PARAVIRT
>>> isn't set.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 38ac0287b7f4 ("fbdev/efifb: Honour UEFI memory map attributes when mapping the FB")
>>> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c | 2 +-
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
>>> index 65491ae74808..f5eccd1373e9 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
>>> @@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
>>>       info->apertures->ranges[0].base = efifb_fix.smem_start;
>>>       info->apertures->ranges[0].size = size_remap;
>>> -    if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT) &&
>>> +    if (efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT) && !efi_enabled(EFI_PARAVIRT) &&
>>>           !efi_mem_desc_lookup(efifb_fix.smem_start, &md)) {
>>>           if ((efifb_fix.smem_start + efifb_fix.smem_len) >
>>>               (md.phys_addr + (md.num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT))) {
>>>
>>
> 
> In case I see no reaction from the maintainer for another week I'll take
> this patch through the Xen tree.

>From fbdev POV this change looks fine to me and I'm OK with merging it
through Xen or EFI tree:

Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics