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Message-ID: <20250402094540.3586683-7-mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Wed,  2 Apr 2025 11:45:39 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] x86/efi: Make efi_enter/leave_mm() use the use_/unuse_temporary_mm() machinery

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>

This should be considerably more robust.  It's also necessary for optimized
for_each_possible_lazymm_cpu() on x86 -- without this patch, EFI calls in
lazy context would remove the lazy mm from mm_cpumask().

[ mingo: Merged it on top of x86/alternatives ]

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241119163035.877939834@infradead.org
---
 arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
index ac57259a432b..a5d3496d32a5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
@@ -434,15 +434,12 @@ void __init efi_dump_pagetable(void)
  */
 static void efi_enter_mm(void)
 {
-	efi_prev_mm = current->active_mm;
-	current->active_mm = &efi_mm;
-	switch_mm(efi_prev_mm, &efi_mm, NULL);
+	efi_prev_mm = use_temporary_mm(&efi_mm);
 }
 
 static void efi_leave_mm(void)
 {
-	current->active_mm = efi_prev_mm;
-	switch_mm(&efi_mm, efi_prev_mm, NULL);
+	unuse_temporary_mm(efi_prev_mm);
 }
 
 void arch_efi_call_virt_setup(void)
-- 
2.45.2