From: Ingo Molnar <mingo-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:42:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160912114229.GA7597@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160912105813.GC3872-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
* Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Sep, at 04:18:22PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > Folks, please queue up the following patches for v4.9. There's more
> > work on refactoring EFI code to be architecture independent and the
> > largest number of patches is spent cleaning up the EFI memory map code
> > and allowing drivers on x86 to reserve EFI boot services for all of
> > runtime.
> >
> > The architecture independent quest is going pretty well and it was
> > only a couple of lines to get the esrt driver working on arm64.
> >
> > Other than that there's some cleanups and fixes, and a merge of the
> > out of tree EFI runtime driver from the FWTS project.
>
> Ard just raised the point that some of the changes in this pull,
> particularly the conversion of the EFI runtime services from
> spinlock-protection to semaphore, would benefit enormously from
> testing in linux-next before the merge window.
>
> Could someone please pull these changes into tip soon so that we can
> get as much testing done as possible?
Yeah, planned to do it over the weekend but got distracted - will do it later
today.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-09 15:18 [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 01/29] x86/efi: Test for EFI_MEMMAP functionality when iterating EFI memmap Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 03/29] efi: Refactor efi_memmap_init_early() into arch-neutral code Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 05/29] efi/fake_mem: Refactor main two code chunks into functions Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 06/29] efi: Split out EFI memory map functions into new file Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 08/29] efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever Matt Fleming
2017-01-04 2:48 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <CAA9_cmffnH0CH+3DaUW3ytVnRWbZCHa1VcAfWgwMCfbncN_QcA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-04 5:28 ` Dave Young
2017-01-04 14:25 ` Peter Jones
2017-01-04 17:45 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-01-04 18:40 ` Dan Williams
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 09/29] efi/runtime-map: Use efi.memmap directly instead of a copy Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 11/29] x86/efi-bgrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() to avoid copying image data Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 14/29] efi: Use a file local lock for efivars Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 16/29] efi: Replace runtime services spinlock with semaphore Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 17/29] x86/efi: Initialize status to ensure garbage is not returned on small size Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 19/29] lib/ucs2_string: Speed up ucs2_utf8size() Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 21/29] fs/efivarfs: Fix double kfree() in error path Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 22/29] x86/efi: Remove unused find_bits() function Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 23/29] efi/arm64: Add debugfs node to dump UEFI runtime page tables Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 25/29] efi: Add efi_test driver for exporting UEFI runtime service interfaces Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 27/29] x86/efi: Use kmalloc_array() in efi_call_phys_prolog() Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 29/29] x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary boot services Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20160909151851.27577-1-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 02/29] x86/efi: Consolidate region mapping logic Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 04/29] efi: Add efi_memmap_init_late() for permanent EFI memmap Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 07/29] efi: Add efi_memmap_install() for installing new EFI memory maps Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 10/29] efi/esrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() and avoid a kmalloc() Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 12/29] efi/esrt: Use memremap not ioremap to access ESRT table in memory Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 13/29] efi/arm*: esrt: Add missing call to efi_esrt_init() Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 15/29] efi: Don't use spinlocks for efi vars Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 18/29] firmware-gsmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "dma_pool_destroy" Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 20/29] x86/efi: Map in physical addresses in efi_map_region_fixed Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 24/29] x86/efi: Defer efi_esrt_init until after memblock_x86_fill Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 26/29] efi/arm64: Treat regions with WT/WC set but WB cleared as memory Matt Fleming
2016-09-09 15:18 ` [PATCH 28/29] x86/efi: Optimize away setup_gop32/64 if unused Matt Fleming
2016-09-12 10:58 ` [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Matt Fleming
[not found] ` <20160912105813.GC3872-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
2016-09-12 11:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-09-13 18:32 ` Ingo Molnar
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