[PATCH v4 resend 5/7] arm64/efi: Drop efi_rt_lock spinlock from EFI arch wrapper

Ard Biesheuvel
2025-10-15T21:01:08Z

Since commit

5894cf571e14 ("acpi/prmt: Use EFI runtime sandbox to invoke PRM handlers")

all EFI runtime calls on arm64 are routed via the EFI runtime wrappers,
which are serialized using the efi_runtime_lock semaphore.

This means the efi_rt_lock spinlock in the arm64 arch wrapper code has
become redundant, and can be dropped. For robustness, replace it with an
assert that the EFI runtime lock is in fact held by 'current'.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
index 6c371b158b99..0094f5938ba6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
@@ -165,19 +165,16 @@ asmlinkage efi_status_t efi_handle_corrupted_x18(efi_status_t s, const char *f)
return s;
}

-static DEFINE_RAW_SPINLOCK(efi_rt_lock);
-
void arch_efi_call_virt_setup(void)
{
+ efi_runtime_assert_lock_held();
efi_virtmap_load();
- raw_spin_lock(&efi_rt_lock);
__efi_fpsimd_begin();
}

void arch_efi_call_virt_teardown(void)
{
__efi_fpsimd_end();
- raw_spin_unlock(&efi_rt_lock);
efi_virtmap_unload();
}

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