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Matt Fleming
994448f1af Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/x86/efi-mixed' into efi-for-mingo
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
	arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
2014-03-05 18:15:37 +00:00
Matt Fleming
677703cef0 efi: Add separate 32-bit/64-bit definitions
The traditional approach of using machine-specific types such as
'unsigned long' does not allow the kernel to interact with firmware
running in a different CPU mode, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 32-bit EFI.

Add distinct EFI structure definitions for both 32-bit and 64-bit so
that we can use them in the 32-bit and 64-bit code paths.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2014-03-04 21:25:02 +00:00
Matt Fleming
092063808c ia64/efi: Implement efi_enabled()
There's no good reason to keep efi_enabled() under CONFIG_X86 anymore,
since nothing about the implementation is specific to x86.

Set EFI feature flags in the ia64 boot path instead of claiming to
support all features. The old behaviour was actually buggy since
efi.memmap never points to a valid memory map, so we shouldn't be
claiming to support EFI_MEMMAP.

Fortunately, this bug was never triggered because EFI_MEMMAP isn't used
outside of arch/x86 currently, but that may not always be the case.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2014-03-04 16:17:20 +00:00
Matt Fleming
3e90959921 efi: Move facility flags to struct efi
As we grow support for more EFI architectures they're going to want the
ability to query which EFI features are available on the running system.
Instead of storing this information in an architecture-specific place,
stick it in the global 'struct efi', which is already the central
location for EFI state.

While we're at it, let's change the return value of efi_enabled() to be
bool and replace all references to 'facility' with 'feature', which is
the usual word used to describe the attributes of the running system.

Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2014-03-04 16:16:16 +00:00
Ingo Molnar
ef0b8b9a52 Merge tag 'v3.13-rc7' into x86/efi-kexec to resolve conflicts
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
	drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-05 12:34:29 +01:00
Dave Young
926172d460 efi: Export EFI runtime memory mapping to sysfs
kexec kernel will need exactly same mapping for EFI runtime memory
ranges. Thus here export the runtime ranges mapping to sysfs,
kexec-tools will assemble them and pass to 2nd kernel via setup_data.

Introducing a new directory /sys/firmware/efi/runtime-map just like
/sys/firmware/memmap. Containing below attribute in each file of that
directory:

attribute  num_pages  phys_addr  type  virt_addr

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-12-21 15:29:36 +00:00
Dave Young
a0998eb15a efi: Export more EFI table variables to sysfs
Export fw_vendor, runtime and config table physical addresses to
/sys/firmware/efi/{fw_vendor,runtime,config_table} because kexec kernels
need them.

From EFI spec these 3 variables will be updated to virtual address after
entering virtual mode. But kernel startup code will need the physical
address.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-12-21 15:29:36 +00:00
Seiji Aguchi
e0d59733f6 efivars, efi-pstore: Hold off deletion of sysfs entry until the scan is completed
Currently, when mounting pstore file system, a read callback of
efi_pstore driver runs mutiple times as below.

- In the first read callback, scan efivar_sysfs_list from head and pass
  a kmsg buffer of a entry to an upper pstore layer.
- In the second read callback, rescan efivar_sysfs_list from the entry
  and pass another kmsg buffer to it.
- Repeat the scan and pass until the end of efivar_sysfs_list.

In this process, an entry is read across the multiple read function
calls. To avoid race between the read and erasion, the whole process
above is protected by a spinlock, holding in open() and releasing in
close().

At the same time, kmemdup() is called to pass the buffer to pstore
filesystem during it. And then, it causes a following lockdep warning.

To make the dynamic memory allocation runnable without taking spinlock,
holding off a deletion of sysfs entry if it happens while scanning it
via efi_pstore, and deleting it after the scan is completed.

To implement it, this patch introduces two flags, scanning and deleting,
to efivar_entry.

On the code basis, it seems that all the scanning and deleting logic is
not needed because __efivars->lock are not dropped when reading from the
EFI variable store.

But, the scanning and deleting logic is still needed because an
efi-pstore and a pstore filesystem works as follows.

In case an entry(A) is found, the pointer is saved to psi->data.  And
efi_pstore_read() passes the entry(A) to a pstore filesystem by
releasing  __efivars->lock.

And then, the pstore filesystem calls efi_pstore_read() again and the
same entry(A), which is saved to psi->data, is used for resuming to scan
a sysfs-list.

So, to protect the entry(A), the logic is needed.

[    1.143710] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.144058] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/lockdep.c:2740 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x104/0x110()
[    1.144058] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags))
[    1.144058] Modules linked in:
[    1.144058] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 3.11.0-rc5 #2
[    1.144058]  0000000000000009 ffff8800797e9ae0 ffffffff816614a5 ffff8800797e9b28
[    1.144058]  ffff8800797e9b18 ffffffff8105510d 0000000000000080 0000000000000046
[    1.144058]  00000000000000d0 00000000000003af ffffffff81ccd0c0 ffff8800797e9b78
[    1.144058] Call Trace:
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff816614a5>] dump_stack+0x54/0x74
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8105510d>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7d/0xa0
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8105517c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8131290f>] ? vsscanf+0x57f/0x7b0
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff810bbd74>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x104/0x110
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff81192da0>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x50/0x280
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff815147bb>] ? efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x12b/0x170
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8115b260>] kmemdup+0x20/0x50
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff815147bb>] efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x12b/0x170
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff81514800>] ? efi_pstore_read_func.part.1+0x170/0x170
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff815148b4>] efi_pstore_read_func+0xb4/0xe0
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff81512b7b>] __efivar_entry_iter+0xfb/0x120
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8151428f>] efi_pstore_read+0x3f/0x50
[    1.144058]  [<ffffffff8128d7ba>] pstore_get_records+0x9a/0x150
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff812af25c>] ? selinux_d_instantiate+0x1c/0x20
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff8128ce30>] ? parse_options+0x80/0x80
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff8128ced5>] pstore_fill_super+0xa5/0xc0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff811ae7d2>] mount_single+0xa2/0xd0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff8128ccf8>] pstore_mount+0x18/0x20
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff811ae8b9>] mount_fs+0x39/0x1b0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff81160550>] ? __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff811c9493>] vfs_kern_mount+0x63/0xf0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff811cbb0e>] do_mount+0x23e/0xa20
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff8115b51b>] ? strndup_user+0x4b/0xf0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff811cc373>] SyS_mount+0x83/0xc0
[    1.158207]  [<ffffffff81673cc2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[    1.158207] ---[ end trace 61981bc62de9f6f4 ]---

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Tested-by: Madper Xie <cxie@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-11-28 20:16:55 +00:00
Borislav Petkov
d2f7cbe7b2 x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping
We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.

Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.

Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.

While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).

Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-11-02 11:09:36 +00:00
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