[PATCH 5.18 311/879] efi: Allow to enable EFI runtime services by default on RT

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-07T22:36:33Z

From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit a031651ff2144a3d81d4916856c093bc1ea0a413 ]

Commit d9f283ae71af ("efi: Disable runtime services on RT") disabled EFI
runtime services by default when the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT option is enabled.

The rationale for that commit is that some EFI calls could take too much
time, leading to large latencies which is an issue for Real-Time kernels.

But a side effect of that change was that now is not possible anymore to
enable the EFI runtime services by default when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is set,
without passing an efi=runtime command line parameter to the kernel.

Instead, let's add a new EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME boolean Kconfig option, that
would be set to n by default but to y if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled.

That way, the current behaviour is preserved but gives users a mechanism
to enable the EFI runtimes services in their kernels if that is required.
For example, if the firmware could guarantee bounded time for EFI calls.

Also, having a separate boolean config could allow users to disable the
EFI runtime services by default even when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set.

Reported-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Fixes: d9f283ae71af ("efi: Disable runtime services on RT")
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220331151654.184433-1-javierm@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
index 2c3dac5ecb36..243882f5e5f9 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig
@@ -284,3 +284,18 @@ config EFI_CUSTOM_SSDT_OVERLAYS

See Documentation/admin-guide/acpi/ssdt-overlays.rst for more
information.
+
+config EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME
+ bool "Disable EFI runtime services support by default"
+ default y if PREEMPT_RT
+ help
+ Allow to disable the EFI runtime services support by default. This can
+ already be achieved by using the efi=noruntime option, but it could be
+ useful to have this default without any kernel command line parameter.
+
+ The EFI runtime services are disabled by default when PREEMPT_RT is
+ enabled, because measurements have shown that some EFI functions calls
+ might take too much time to complete, causing large latencies which is
+ an issue for Real-Time kernels.
+
+ This default can be overridden by using the efi=runtime option.
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 5502e176d51b..ff57db8f8d05 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct mm_struct efi_mm = {

struct workqueue_struct *efi_rts_wq;

-static bool disable_runtime = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT);
+static bool disable_runtime = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME);
static int __init setup_noefi(char *arg)
{
disable_runtime = true;
--
2.35.1