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Roy Franz
ed37ddffe2 efi: Add proper definitions for some EFI function pointers.
The x86/AMD64 EFI stubs must use a call wrapper to convert between
the Linux and EFI ABIs, so void pointers are sufficient.  For ARM,
the ABIs are compatible, so we can directly invoke the function
pointers.  The functions that are used by the ARM stub are updated
to match the EFI definitions.
Also add some EFI types used by EFI functions.

Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-09-25 12:34:33 +01:00
Leif Lindholm
258f6fd738 efi: x86: make efi_lookup_mapped_addr() a common function
efi_lookup_mapped_addr() is a handy utility for other platforms than
x86. Move it from arch/x86 to drivers/firmware. Add memmap pointer
to global efi structure, and initialise it on x86.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-09-05 13:29:29 +01:00
Leif Lindholm
272686bf46 efi: x86: ia64: provide a generic efi_config_init()
Common to (U)EFI support on all platforms is the global "efi" data
structure, and the code that parses the System Table to locate
addresses to populate that structure with.

This patch adds both of these to the global EFI driver code and
removes the local definition of the global "efi" data structure from
the x86 and ia64 code.

Squashed into one big patch to avoid breaking bisection.

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-09-05 13:29:29 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
21884a83b2 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The timer changes contain:

   - posix timer code consolidation and fixes for odd corner cases

   - sched_clock implementation moved from ARM to core code to avoid
     duplication by other architectures

   - alarm timer updates

   - clocksource and clockevents unregistration facilities

   - clocksource/events support for new hardware

   - precise nanoseconds RTC readout (Xen feature)

   - generic support for Xen suspend/resume oddities

   - the usual lot of fixes and cleanups all over the place

  The parts which touch other areas (ARM/XEN) have been coordinated with
  the relevant maintainers.  Though this results in an handful of
  trivial to solve merge conflicts, which we preferred over nasty cross
  tree merge dependencies.

  The patches which have been committed in the last few days are bug
  fixes plus the posix timer lot.  The latter was in akpms queue and
  next for quite some time; they just got forgotten and Frederic
  collected them last minute."

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
  hrtimer: Remove unused variable
  hrtimers: Move SMP function call to thread context
  clocksource: Reselect clocksource when watchdog validated high-res capability
  posix-cpu-timers: don't account cpu timer after stopped thread runtime accounting
  posix_timers: fix racy timer delta caching on task exit
  posix-timers: correctly get dying task time sample in posix_cpu_timer_schedule()
  selftests: add basic posix timers selftests
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate expired timers check
  posix_cpu_timers: consolidate timer list cleanups
  posix_cpu_timer: consolidate expiry time type
  tick: Sanitize broadcast control logic
  tick: Prevent uncontrolled switch to oneshot mode
  tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
  x86: xen: Sync the CMOS RTC as well as the Xen wallclock
  x86: xen: Sync the wallclock when the system time is set
  timekeeping: Indicate that clock was set in the pvclock gtod notifier
  timekeeping: Pass flags instead of multiple bools to timekeeping_update()
  xen: Remove clock_was_set() call in the resume path
  hrtimers: Support resuming with two or more CPUs online (but stopped)
  timer: Fix jiffies wrap behavior of round_jiffies_common()
  ...
2013-07-06 14:09:38 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
43ab0476a6 efi: Convert runtime services function ptrs
... to void * like the boot services and lose all the void * casts. No
functionality change.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-06-11 07:39:26 +01:00
David Vrabel
3565184ed0 x86: Increase precision of x86_platform.get/set_wallclock()
All the virtualized platforms (KVM, lguest and Xen) have persistent
wallclocks that have more than one second of precision.

read_persistent_wallclock() and update_persistent_wallclock() allow
for nanosecond precision but their implementation on x86 with
x86_platform.get/set_wallclock() only allows for one second precision.
This means guests may see a wallclock time that is off by up to 1
second.

Make set_wallclock() and get_wallclock() take a struct timespec
parameter (which allows for nanosecond precision) so KVM and Xen
guests may start with a more accurate wallclock time and a Xen dom0
can maintain a more accurate wallclock for guests.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2013-05-28 14:00:59 -07:00
Matt Fleming
8a415b8c05 efi, pstore: Read data from variable store before memcpy()
Seiji reported getting empty dmesg-* files, because the data was never
actually read in efi_pstore_read_func(), and so the memcpy() was copying
garbage data.

This patch necessitated adding __efivar_entry_get() which is callable
between efivar_entry_iter_{begin,end}(). We can also delete
__efivar_entry_size() because efi_pstore_read_func() was the only
caller.

Reported-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-30 16:03:10 +01:00
Matt Fleming
a614e1923d Merge tag 'v3.9' into efi-for-tip2
Resolve conflicts for Ingo.

Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/Kconfig
	drivers/firmware/efivars.c

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-30 11:42:13 +01:00
Tom Gundersen
a9499fa7cd efi: split efisubsystem from efivars
This registers /sys/firmware/efi/{,systab,efivars/} whenever EFI is enabled
and the system is booted with EFI.

This allows
 *) userspace to check for the existence of /sys/firmware/efi as a way
    to determine whether or it is running on an EFI system.
 *) 'mount -t efivarfs none /sys/firmware/efi/efivars' without manually
    loading any modules.

[ Also, move the efivar API into vars.c and unconditionally compile it.
  This allows us to move efivars.c, which now only contains the sysfs
  variable code, into the firmware/efi directory. Note that the efivars.c
  filename is kept to maintain backwards compatability with the old
  efivars.ko module. With this patch it is now possible for efivarfs
  to be built without CONFIG_EFI_VARS - Matt ]

Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 13:27:06 +01:00
Matt Fleming
048517722c efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory
efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.

Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 13:24:01 +01:00
Matt Fleming
e14ab23dde efivars: efivar_entry API
There isn't really a formal interface for dealing with EFI variables
or struct efivar_entry. Historically, this has led to various bits of
code directly accessing the generic EFI variable ops, which inherently
ties it to specific EFI variable operations instead of indirectly
using whatever ops were registered with register_efivars(). This lead
to the efivarfs code only working with the generic EFI variable ops
and not CONFIG_GOOGLE_SMI.

Encapsulate everything that needs to access '__efivars' inside an
efivar_entry_* API and use the new API in the pstore, sysfs and
efivarfs code.

Much of the efivars code had to be rewritten to use this new API. For
instance, it is now up to the users of the API to build the initial
list of EFI variables in their efivar_init() callback function. The
variable list needs to be passed to efivar_init() which allows us to
keep work arounds for things like implementation bugs in
GetNextVariable() in a central location.

Allowing users of the API to use a callback function to build the list
greatly benefits the efivarfs code which needs to allocate inodes and
dentries for every variable.  It previously did this in a racy way
because the code ran without holding the variable spinlock. Both the
sysfs and efivarfs code maintain their own lists which means the two
interfaces can be running simultaneously without interference, though
it should be noted that because no synchronisation is performed it is
very easy to create inconsistencies. efibootmgr doesn't currently use
efivarfs and users are likely to also require the old sysfs interface,
so it makes sense to allow both to be built.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 13:23:59 +01:00
Matt Fleming
d5abc7c105 efi: move utf16 string functions to efi.h
There are currently two implementations of the utf16 string functions.
Somewhat confusingly, they've got different names.

Centralise the functions in efi.h.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Reviewed-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 08:28:21 +01:00
Matt Fleming
a6e4d5a03e x86, efivars: firmware bug workarounds should be in platform code
Let's not burden ia64 with checks in the common efivars code that we're not
writing too much data to the variable store. That kind of thing is an x86
firmware bug, plain and simple.

efi_query_variable_store() provides platforms with a wrapper in which they can
perform checks and workarounds for EFI variable storage bugs.

Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-09 11:34:05 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
024e4ec185 Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull pstore patches from Tony Luck:
 "A few fixes to reduce places where pstore might hang a system in the
  crash path.  Plus a new mountpoint (/sys/fs/pstore ...  makes more
  sense then /dev/pstore)."

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/firmware/efivars.c

* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore
  efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
  efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars->lock
  efi_pstore: Avoid deadlock in non-blocking paths
  pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path
2013-02-21 09:38:18 -08:00
Seiji Aguchi
a93bc0c6e0 efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.

[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.

Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.

efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2013-02-12 13:04:41 -08:00
Matt Fleming
83e6818974 efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities
Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-01-30 11:51:59 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
11520e5e7c Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock (again)"
This reverts commit bd52276fa1 ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with
platform wall clock (again)"), and the two supporting commits:

  da5a108d05: "x86/kernel: remove tboot 1:1 page table creation code"

  185034e72d: "x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls")

as they all depend semantically on commit 53b87cf088 ("x86, mm:
Include the entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd") that got
reverted earlier due to the problems it caused.

This was pointed out by Yinghai Lu, and verified by me on my Macbook Air
that uses EFI.

Pointed-out-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-15 15:20:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d42b3a2906 Merge branch 'core-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI update from Peter Anvin:
 "EFI tree, from Matt Fleming.  Most of the patches are the new efivarfs
  filesystem by Matt Garrett & co.  The balance are support for EFI
  wallclock in the absence of a hardware-specific driver, and various
  fixes and cleanups."

* 'core-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  efivarfs: Make efivarfs_fill_super() static
  x86, efi: Check table header length in efi_bgrt_init()
  efivarfs: Use query_variable_info() to limit kmalloc()
  efivarfs: Fix return value of efivarfs_file_write()
  efivarfs: Return a consistent error when efivarfs_get_inode() fails
  efivarfs: Make 'datasize' unsigned long
  efivarfs: Add unique magic number
  efivarfs: Replace magic number with sizeof(attributes)
  efivarfs: Return an error if we fail to read a variable
  efi: Clarify GUID length calculations
  efivarfs: Implement exclusive access for {get,set}_variable
  efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we clean up correctly on error
  efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we free our temporary name
  efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() fix inode reference counts
  efivarfs: efivarfs_create() ensure we drop our reference on inode on error
  efivarfs: efivarfs_file_read ensure we free data in error paths
  x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock (again)
  x86/kernel: remove tboot 1:1 page table creation code
  x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls
  x86, mm: Include the entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd
  ...
2012-12-14 10:08:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
193c0d6825 Merge tag 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull PCI update from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "Host bridge hotplug:
   - Untangle _PRT from struct pci_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Request _OSC control before scanning root bus (Taku Izumi)
   - Assign resources when adding host bridge (Yinghai Lu)
   - Remove root bus when removing host bridge (Yinghai Lu)
   - Remove _PRT during hot remove (Yinghai Lu)

  SRIOV
    - Add sysfs knobs to control numVFs (Don Dutile)

  Power management
   - Notify devices when power resource turned on (Huang Ying)

  Bug fixes
   - Work around broken _SEG on HP xw9300 (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - Keep runtime PM enabled for unbound PCI devices (Huang Ying)
   - Fix Optimus dual-GPU runtime D3 suspend issue (Dave Airlie)
   - Fix xen frontend shutdown issue (David Vrabel)
   - Work around PLX PCI 9050 BAR alignment erratum (Ian Abbott)

  Miscellaneous
   - Add GPL license for drivers/pci/ioapic (Andrew Cooks)
   - Add standard PCI-X, PCIe ASPM register #defines (Bjorn Helgaas)
   - NumaChip remote PCI support (Daniel Blueman)
   - Fix PCIe Link Capabilities Supported Link Speed definition (Jingoo
     Han)
   - Convert dev_printk() to dev_info(), etc (Joe Perches)
   - Add support for non PCI BAR ROM data (Matthew Garrett)
   - Add x86 support for host bridge translation offset (Mike Yoknis)
   - Report success only when every driver supports AER (Vijay
     Pandarathil)"

Fix up trivial conflicts.

* tag 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (48 commits)
  PCI: Use phys_addr_t for physical ROM address
  x86/PCI: Add NumaChip remote PCI support
  ath9k: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
  iwlwifi: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
  iwlwifi: collapse wrapper for pcie_capability_read_word()
  iwlegacy: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
  iwlegacy: collapse wrapper for pcie_capability_read_word()
  cxgb3: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
  PCI: Add standard PCIe Capability Link ASPM field names
  PCI/portdrv: Use PCI Express Capability accessors
  PCI: Use standard PCIe Capability Link register field names
  x86: Use PCI setup data
  PCI: Add support for non-BAR ROMs
  PCI: Add pcibios_add_device
  EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR
  PCI: Add and use standard PCI-X Capability register names
  PCI/PM: Keep runtime PM enabled for unbound PCI devices
  xen-pcifront: Handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
  PCI: SRIOV control and status via sysfs (documentation)
  PCI/AER: Report success only when every device has AER-aware driver
  ...
2012-12-13 12:14:47 -08:00
Matthew Garrett
dd5fc854de EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR
EFI provides support for providing PCI ROMs via means other than the ROM
BAR. This support vanishes after we've exited boot services, so add support
for stashing copies of the ROMs in setup_data if they're not otherwise
available.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Tested-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
2012-12-05 14:33:26 -07:00
Seiji Aguchi
d80a361d77 efi_pstore: Check remaining space with QueryVariableInfo() before writing data
[Issue]

As discussed in a thread below, Running out of space in EFI isn't a well-tested scenario.
And we wouldn't expect all firmware to handle it gracefully.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134305325801789&w=2

On the other hand, current efi_pstore doesn't check a remaining space of storage at writing time.
Therefore, efi_pstore may not work if it tries to write a large amount of data.

[Patch Description]

To avoid handling the situation above, this patch checks if there is a space enough to log with
QueryVariableInfo() before writing data.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2012-11-26 16:01:46 -08:00
Matt Fleming
89d16665d3 efivarfs: Use query_variable_info() to limit kmalloc()
We don't want someone who can write EFI variables to be able to
allocate arbitrarily large amounts of memory, so cap it to something
sensible like the amount of free space for EFI variables.

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2012-11-13 12:33:21 +00:00
Jan Beulich
bd52276fa1 x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock (again)
Other than ix86, x86-64 on EFI so far didn't set the
{g,s}et_wallclock accessors to the EFI routines, thus
incorrectly using raw RTC accesses instead.

Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't
enough, however: While so far early get-time calls were done in
physical mode, this doesn't work properly for x86-64, as virtual
addresses would still need to be set up for all runtime regions
(which wasn't the case on the system I have access to), so
instead the patch moves the call to efi_enter_virtual_mode()
ahead (which in turn allows to drop all code related to calling
efi-get-time in physical mode).

Additionally the earlier calling of efi_set_executable()
requires the CPA code to cope, i.e. during early boot it must be
avoided to call cpa_flush_array(), as the first thing this
function does is a BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()).

Also make the two EFI functions in question here static -
they're not being referenced elsewhere.

History:

    This commit was originally merged as bacef661ac ("x86-64/efi:
    Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock") but it resulted in some
    ASUS machines no longer booting due to a firmware bug, and so was
    reverted in f026cfa82f. A pre-emptive fix for the buggy ASUS
    firmware was merged in 03a1c254975e ("x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable
    mapping for virtual EFI calls") so now this patch can be
    reapplied.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> [added commit history]
2012-10-30 10:39:20 +00:00
Lee, Chun-Yi
605e70c7aa efi: add efivars kobject to efi sysfs folder
UEFI variable filesystem need a new mount point, so this patch add
efivars kobject to efi_kobj for create a /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
folder.

Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2012-10-30 10:39:18 +00:00
Matthew Garrett
5d9db88376 efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem
The existing EFI variables code only supports variables of up to 1024
bytes. This limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification,
but was removed before any full releases. Since variables can now be
larger than a single page, sysfs isn't the best interface for this. So,
instead, let's add a filesystem. Variables can be read, written and
created, with the first 4 bytes of each variable representing its UEFI
attributes. The create() method doesn't actually commit to flash since
zero-length variables can't exist per-spec.

Updates from Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2012-10-30 10:39:16 +00:00