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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/platform/UV: Fix support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 13:26:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161020122651.GC19876@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1476928131-170101-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com>

On Wed, 19 Oct, at 08:48:51PM, Alex Thorlton wrote:
> Some time ago, we brought our UV BIOS callback code up to speed with the
> new EFI memory mapping scheme, in commit:
> 
>     d1be84a232e3 ("x86/uv: Update uv_bios_call() to use efi_call_virt_pointer()")
> 
> By leveraging some changes that I made to a few of the EFI runtime
> callback mechanisms, in commit:
> 
>     80e75596079f ("efi: Convert efi_call_virt() to efi_call_virt_pointer()")
> 
> This got everything running smoothly on UV, with the new EFI mapping
> code.  However, this left one, small loose end, in that EFI_OLD_MEMMAP
> (a.k.a. efi=old_map) will no longer work on UV, on kernels that include
> the aforementioned changes.
> 
> At the time this was not a major issue (in fact, it still really isn't),
> but there's no reason that EFI_OLD_MEMMAP *shouldn't* work on our
> systems.  This commit adds a check into uv_bios_call, to see if we have
> the EFI_OLD_MEMMAP bit set in efi.flags.  If it is set, we fall back to
> using our old callback method, which uses efi_call directly on the __va
> of our function pointer.
> 
> v2: Invert if-statement and add unlikely() hint.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> ---
>  arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks fine to me. Applied to 'next'. Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-20 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-20  1:48 [PATCH v2] x86/platform/UV: Fix support for EFI_OLD_MEMMAP after BIOS callback updates Alex Thorlton
2016-10-20 12:26 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-10-21  5:48 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Alex Thorlton
2016-10-25  6:46 ` [lkp] [x86/platform/UV] 71854cb812: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops -2.3% regression kernel test robot
2016-10-25 10:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-27  1:55     ` Ye Xiaolong
2016-10-27 22:37       ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31  5:41         ` [LKP] " Fengguang Wu
2016-10-31 18:19           ` Thomas Gleixner

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