Re: [patch 3/6] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function

[Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>]

On 10/28/13 at 10:32am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:47:16AM +0800, dyoung@redhat.com wrote:
> > Add two small functions:
> > efi_merge_regions and efi_map_regions, efi_enter_virtual_mode
> > calls them instead of embedding two long for loop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c |   83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- efi.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> > +++ efi/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> > @@ -789,35 +789,13 @@ void __init old_map_region(efi_memory_de
> >  		pr_err("ioremap of 0x%llX failed!\n",
> >  		       (unsigned long long)md->phys_addr);
> >  }
> > -/*
> > - * This function will switch the EFI runtime services to virtual mode.
> > - * Essentially, look through the EFI memmap and map every region that
> > - * has the runtime attribute bit set in its memory descriptor and update
> > - * that memory descriptor with the virtual address obtained from ioremap().
> > - * This enables the runtime services to be called without having to
> > - * thunk back into physical mode for every invocation.
> > - */
> > -void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> > -{
> > -	efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> > -	void *p, *new_memmap = NULL;
> > -	unsigned long size;
> > -	efi_status_t status;
> > -	u64 end, systab;
> > -	int count = 0;
> >  
> > -	efi.systab = NULL;
> > -
> > -	/*
> > -	 * We don't do virtual mode, since we don't do runtime services, on
> > -	 * non-native EFI
> > -	 */
> > -	if (!efi_is_native()) {
> > -		efi_unmap_memmap();
> > -		return;
> > -	}
> > +/* Merge contiguous regions of the same type and attribute */
> > +static void efi_merge_regions(void)
> > +{
> > +	void *p;
> > + 	efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> >  
> > -	/* Merge contiguous regions of the same type and attribute */
> >  	for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
> >  		u64 prev_size;
> >  		md = p;
> > @@ -844,6 +822,19 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> >  		prev_md = md;
> >  
> >  	}
> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * Map efi memory ranges for runtime serivce
> > + * Return the new memmap with updated virtual addrresses.
> > + */
> > +void efi_map_regions(void **new_memmap, int *count)
> > +{
> > +	efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> 
> Applying: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
> /home/boris/kernel/linux-2.6/.git/rebase-apply/patch:42: space before tab in indent.
>         efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> error: patch failed: arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c:862
> error: arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c: patch does not apply
> Patch failed at 0001 Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
> 
> And I know git can be a bit pickier than patch but it doesn't apply with patch
> either:
> 
> $ patch -p1 --dry-run -i .git/rebase-apply/patch
> checking file arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 853.
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED
> 
> For some reason, this patch doesn't apply and the .rej looks funny.

It's stange, but I did use git to generate patch, I use quilt instead.
Will have a try with git.