Re: efi_call on SGI

[Alex Thorlton <athorlton-sJ/iWh9BUns@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:44:14PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Btw,
> 
> while we're at it, I see uv_bios_call is sometimes done with preemption
> disabled around it and sometimes it is not (at least I don't see it)...
> 
> In any case, if SGI uses the EFI pagetable now too, you probably would
> want to do the efi calls like the rest of x86 does them - see the 64-bit
> version of efi_call_virt() in arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h for an example
> what I mean.
> 
> Now, you could either copy that macro or you could accomodate it to
> serve everyone's needs - depends on what you'd prefer.
> 
> I'm just saying - I had stumbled across this while the debugging session
> was going on and wanted to point that out but it wasn't too important at
> the time so...

Thanks, Boris.  I'll take a look at that.  I'm not sure why we would've
chosen to do things differently there; wouldn't have been around for
that, but I'll see if we can fix things up so that we're doing
everything the way that everyone else is.

- Alex