From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755219Ab3KVABd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:01:33 -0500 Received: from fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.36]:38391 "EHLO fgwmail6.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751569Ab3KVABb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:01:31 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck: OK by SHieldMailChecker v2.0.1 X-SHieldMailCheckerPolicyVersion: FJ-ISEC-20120718-3 Message-ID: <528E9EB2.3060808@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:00:50 +0900 From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "matt.fleming@intel.com" , "jlee@suse.com" , "matt@console-pimps.org" , "richard@nod.at" , "cxie@redhat.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: add no_bricked_efi whitelist References: <528C740A.6010407@jp.fujitsu.com> <1384963376.20536.3.camel@x230> <528DD3E0.3050606@jp.fujitsu.com> <1385064722.12107.1.camel@x230> In-Reply-To: <1385064722.12107.1.camel@x230> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SecurityPolicyCheck-GC: OK by FENCE-Mail Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (2013/11/22 5:12), Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 18:35 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > >> Remaining space is free space that can be used by efi variable. But by 5KB >> threshold, we cannot use the space while running OS. > > Is the situation something like(assuming a 128KB flash part): > > 1) 64KB of variables, 59KB of deleted variables, 5KB of free space, My situation looks like this. The free space spreads out if gc runs. Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu > > or > > 2) 123KB of variables, 5KB of free space > > ? >