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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, aarcange@redhat.com,
	tony.luck@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	octavian.purdila@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003052803.GA27464@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506BC96D.10507@hp.com>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:13:17PM -0600, Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke wrote:

> Sounds like a better solution is to allow accesses to only I/O regions 
> presented in the EFI memory map for physical addresses below 1 MB.

That won't work - unfortunately we do still need the low region to be 
available for X because some platforms expect us to use int10 even on 
EFI (yes, yes, I know). Do you have a copy of the EFI memory map for a 
system that's broken with the current code?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke <thavatchai.makpahibulchoke@hp.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, yinghai@kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, aarcange@redhat.com,
	tony.luck@intel.com, mgorman@suse.de, weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	octavian.purdila@intel.com, paul.gortmaker@windriver.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 06:28:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121003052803.GA27464@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506BC96D.10507@hp.com>

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 11:13:17PM -0600, Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke wrote:

> Sounds like a better solution is to allow accesses to only I/O regions 
> presented in the EFI memory map for physical addresses below 1 MB.

That won't work - unfortunately we do still need the low region to be 
available for X because some platforms expect us to use int10 even on 
EFI (yes, yes, I know). Do you have a copy of the EFI memory map for a 
system that's broken with the current code?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-03  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-02 21:32 [PATCH] Fix devmem_is_allowed for below 1MB accesses for an efi machine T Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-02 21:32 ` T Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-02 21:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-02 21:50   ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  4:31   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03  4:31     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03  4:44     ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  4:44       ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  5:15       ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03  5:15         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03  5:13         ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-03  5:13           ` Thavatchai Makphaibulchoke
2012-10-03  5:28           ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-10-03  5:28             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-03  5:35             ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  5:35               ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  5:27         ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-03  5:27           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found] <jQim6-6MC-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <jQiFt-6UB-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <jQoUx-33k-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <jQp4d-37r-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <jQpxf-3Cv-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2012-10-04 20:07         ` Randy Wright
2012-10-04 21:06           ` H. Peter Anvin

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