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From: Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] efi: Permanent runtime EFI memmap support
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:34:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160630143431.GA2818@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466681690-5850-1-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>

Hi, Matt

On 06/23/16 at 12:34pm, Matt Fleming wrote:
> This series adds support for keeping the EFI memory map around at
> runtime for x86 (ARM and arm64 already have this support).
> 
> Additionally, drivers can now reserve EFI boot services regions such
> that they are not released back to the kernel during
> efi_free_boot_services().
> 
> With these two features it becomes possible to pass things like the
> EFI System Resource Table data structures across kexec reboot.
> 
> This series also includes a whole bunch of refactoring and cleanups to
> move code out of arch or driver-specific files into generic places.
> 
> I've given these patches some light testing, but it would be good if
> others could provide more given that this series touches so many
> different code paths.

Tested kexec/kdump and the bgrt reservation with kexec and kexec_file
system call. But due to a crypto issue I can not test signature
verification of kexec_file, but I think that is a separate problem.

For these parts:
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Thanks
Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-30 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-23 11:34 [PATCH 00/11] efi: Permanent runtime EFI memmap support Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 01/11] x86/efi: Test for EFI_MEMMAP functionality when iterating EFI memmap Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 02/11] x86/efi: Consolidate region mapping logic Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 14:00   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 04/11] efi: Add efi_memmap_init_late() for permanent EFI memmap Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 05/11] efi/fake_mem: Refactor main two code chunks into functions Matt Fleming
     [not found] ` <1466681690-5850-1-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-23 11:34   ` [PATCH 03/11] efi: Refactor efi_memmap_init_early() into arch-neutral code Matt Fleming
     [not found]     ` <1466681690-5850-4-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-24 11:44       ` Ard Biesheuvel
     [not found]         ` <CAKv+Gu_n9eVL6mNtrLQWdCwde9oLfkGYV5CnqLhSPO31Aehpzw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-04 12:19           ` Matt Fleming
     [not found]             ` <20160704121952.GK8415-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-07-04 22:24               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-06-23 11:34   ` [PATCH 06/11] efi: Split out EFI memory map functions into new file Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34   ` [PATCH 07/11] efi: Add efi_memmap_install() for installing new EFI memory maps Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34   ` [PATCH 09/11] efi/runtime-map: Use efi.memmap directly instead of a copy Matt Fleming
2016-06-30 14:34   ` Dave Young [this message]
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 08/11] efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 10/11] efi/esrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() and avoid a kmalloc() Matt Fleming
2016-06-23 11:34 ` [PATCH 11/11] x86/efi-bgrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() to avoid copying image data Matt Fleming
     [not found]   ` <1466681690-5850-12-git-send-email-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-06-30 14:41     ` Josh Triplett

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