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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	matt.fleming@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120515124707.GB25248@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB265AB0200007800083CC5@nat28.tlf.novell.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:18:19PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:

> Simply removing the #ifdef around the respective code isn't enough,
> however: The runtime code must not only be forced to be executable, it
> also must have a proper virtual address set (which on at least the
> system I'm testing on isn't the case for all necessary regions, or at
> least not as early as they're now being required).

I don't understand this. The get_time pointer won't be updated to the 
virtual function until the end of efi_enter_virtual_mode, at which point 
all runtime regions should have a virtual address mapped. We also call 
runtime_code_page_mkexec() immediately after updating that pointer, 
although maybe the order should be swapped. So I think the bug you're 
fixing is not the bug you think you're fixing...

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-15 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-15 12:18 [PATCH] x86-64: use EFI to deal with platform wall clock Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 12:47 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-05-15 13:19   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-15 13:20     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-16 12:18       ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-16 12:39         ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-16 12:59           ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-16 13:07             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-17  8:31             ` Matt Fleming
2012-05-25 15:00           ` Jan Beulich
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-25 15:20 Jan Beulich
2012-05-25 15:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-05-25 15:30   ` Jan Beulich
2012-05-25 15:34     ` Matthew Garrett
2012-06-06  9:47       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-26 10:26 ` Matt Fleming
2012-06-04  8:11   ` Jan Beulich

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