From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] x86/efi: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 16:31:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140309163141.GA18824@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140309161946.GA10262@console-pimps.org>
On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 04:20:20PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:
> We have tried to use the time functions before, with little success
> because of various bugs in the runtime implementations, e.g. see commit
> bacef661acdb ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock")
> and commit bd52276fa1d4 ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall
> clock (again)").
I'd naively expected that these would be more reliable after the 1:1
mapping patches, so it might actually be time to give them another go.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-09 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 11:20 [patch] x86/efi: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock Dan Carpenter
[not found] ` <20140307112055.GE2351-mgFCXtclrQlZLf2FXnZxJA@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-07 12:10 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <20140307121022.GA32575-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-07 12:25 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-03-09 6:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-09 7:14 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-03-09 16:20 ` Matt Fleming
2014-03-09 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
[not found] ` <20140309163141.GA18824-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-09 18:50 ` Matt Fleming
2014-03-09 19:00 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <20140309190053.GA29555-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 9:10 ` Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20140309185028.GB10262-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 7:27 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-10 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-10 7:45 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-10 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-03-10 8:22 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-10 10:43 ` Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20140310104328.GG10262-HNK1S37rvNbeXh+fF434Mdi2O/JbrIOy@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 11:05 ` Jan Beulich
[not found] ` <531DAA7602000078001224EF-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2014-03-10 16:10 ` Matt Fleming
2014-03-14 23:02 ` Matt Fleming
2014-03-10 9:12 ` Matt Fleming
2014-03-10 7:26 ` Jan Beulich
2014-03-10 17:07 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-03-09 7:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-03-10 16:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
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