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| author | Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> | 2012-11-14 09:42:35 +0000 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2013-01-30 11:51:59 -0800 |
| commit | 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f (patch) | |
| tree | 35673a4eebff4c71bda4b1023ccc7cbea36f84b2 /arch/x86/include/asm | |
| parent | f44310b98ddb7f0d06550d73ed67df5865e3eda5 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h index 6e8fdf5ad11..28677c55113 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h @@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ extern void __iomem *efi_ioremap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size, #endif /* CONFIG_X86_32 */ extern int add_efi_memmap; +extern unsigned long x86_efi_facility; extern void efi_set_executable(efi_memory_desc_t *md, bool executable); extern int efi_memblock_x86_reserve_range(void); extern void efi_call_phys_prelog(void); |