[PATCH] EFI x86: pass firmware call parameters on the stack

Frédéric Riss
2007-01-30T19:01:25Z

When calling into an EFI firmware, the parameters need to be passed on
the stack. The recent change to use -mregparm=3 breaks x86 EFI support.
This patch is needed to allow the new Intel-based Macs to suspend to ram
when run in EFI mode (efi.get_time is called during the suspend phase).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Riss <frederic.riss@gmail.com>

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[As I couldn't find an official maintainer for the linux/efi.h file and
the file header is quite old, I'm Cc:ing the last 2 commiters.]

This patch fixes the issue for x86, but the file is also used by IA64. I
would have used asmlinkage to force arguments on the stack, but it has a
special meaning on IA64, thus I used a raw regparm(0) GCC attribute.
This attribute is documented only for x86, I hope it has no side effect
on other archs.

diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index df1c918..1db5321 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -157,25 +157,35 @@ typedef struct {
unsigned long reset_system;
} efi_runtime_services_t;

-typedef efi_status_t efi_get_time_t (efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc);
-typedef efi_status_t efi_set_time_t (efi_time_t *tm);
+typedef efi_status_t efi_get_time_t (efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
+typedef efi_status_t efi_set_time_t (efi_time_t *tm)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef efi_status_t efi_get_wakeup_time_t (efi_bool_t *enabled, efi_bool_t *pending,
- efi_time_t *tm);
-typedef efi_status_t efi_set_wakeup_time_t (efi_bool_t enabled, efi_time_t *tm);
+ efi_time_t *tm)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
+typedef efi_status_t efi_set_wakeup_time_t (efi_bool_t enabled, efi_time_t *tm)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef efi_status_t efi_get_variable_t (efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor, u32 *attr,
- unsigned long *data_size, void *data);
+ unsigned long *data_size, void *data)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef efi_status_t efi_get_next_variable_t (unsigned long *name_size, efi_char16_t *name,
- efi_guid_t *vendor);
+ efi_guid_t *vendor)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef efi_status_t efi_set_variable_t (efi_char16_t *name, efi_guid_t *vendor,
unsigned long attr, unsigned long data_size,
- void *data);
-typedef efi_status_t efi_get_next_high_mono_count_t (u32 *count);
+ void *data)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
+typedef efi_status_t efi_get_next_high_mono_count_t (u32 *count)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef void efi_reset_system_t (int reset_type, efi_status_t status,
- unsigned long data_size, efi_char16_t *data);
+ unsigned long data_size, efi_char16_t *data)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));
typedef efi_status_t efi_set_virtual_address_map_t (unsigned long memory_map_size,
unsigned long descriptor_size,
u32 descriptor_version,
- efi_memory_desc_t *virtual_map);
+ efi_memory_desc_t *virtual_map)
+ __attribute__((regparm(0)));

/*
* EFI Configuration Table and GUID definitions