From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:26:59 +0000 Message-ID: <20161207132659.GV20785@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1481051763-8705-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1481051763-8705-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Sai Praneeth Prakhya Cc: linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, jlee-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org, bp-Gina5bIWoIWzQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org, ricardo.neri-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, ard.biesheuvel-QSEj5FYQhm4dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, ravi.v.shankar-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, fenghua.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 06 Dec, at 11:15:59AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote: > From: Sai Praneeth > > UEFI v2.6 introduces EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE which describes memory > protections that may be applied to EFI Runtime code and data regions by > kernel. This helps kernel to map efi runtime regions more strictly and > hence allowing only appropriate accesses to these regions. Please refer > to "EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE" in section 4.6 of UEFI specification > v2.6 for more information on this table. I guess this is v3 of your patch series right? Please be sure to include a version tag in future like you did for you v2. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752867AbcLGN1E (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2016 08:27:04 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:38862 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752529AbcLGN1C (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2016 08:27:02 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 13:26:59 +0000 From: Matt Fleming To: Sai Praneeth Prakhya Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jlee@suse.com, bp@alien8.de, ricardo.neri@intel.com, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, ravi.v.shankar@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Message-ID: <20161207132659.GV20785@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1481051763-8705-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1481051763-8705-1-git-send-email-sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24+41 (02bc14ed1569) (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 06 Dec, at 11:15:59AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote: > From: Sai Praneeth > > UEFI v2.6 introduces EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE which describes memory > protections that may be applied to EFI Runtime code and data regions by > kernel. This helps kernel to map efi runtime regions more strictly and > hence allowing only appropriate accesses to these regions. Please refer > to "EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE" in section 4.6 of UEFI specification > v2.6 for more information on this table. I guess this is v3 of your patch series right? Please be sure to include a version tag in future like you did for you v2.