From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:19:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110719111933.GA13122@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E257E33020000780004E319@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:53:07AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The EFI specification requires that callers of the time related runtime
> functions serialize with other CMOS accesses in the kernel, as the EFI
> time functions may choose to also use the legacy CMOS RTC.
>
> Besides fixing a latent bug, this is a prerequisite to safely enable
> the rtc-efi driver for x86, which ought to be preferred over rtc-cmos
> on all EFI platforms.
ACK in principle, although I've just merged this and the IA64 code
together which makes that more awkward. I can fix it up, though.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-19 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-19 10:53 [PATCH] x86: serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock Jan Beulich
2011-07-19 11:19 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-07-19 17:32 ` Rakib Mullick
2011-07-19 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-07-20 12:46 ` Rakib Mullick
2011-07-21 10:08 ` [tip:timers/rtc] x86: Serialize " tip-bot for Jan Beulich
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