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From: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>,
	Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>,
	James Bottomley <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Map EFI memmap entries in-order at runtime
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:57:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150926195755.GC3144@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0568D1D7-B6AA-437C-ADCE-A86D7A2E4722@zytor.com>

On Sat, 26 Sep, at 12:49:26PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> It is still a hack unless all relative offsets are preserved.  That
> is actually simpler, even: no sorting necessary.

Unless I'm missing something, preserving relative offsets is exactly
what we do today, modulo PMD_SIZE gaps.

-- 
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-26 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-25 22:02 [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes Matt Fleming
2015-09-25 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/efi: Map EFI memmap entries in-order at runtime Matt Fleming
2015-09-26  5:56   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-26  6:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 13:43     ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-27  7:03       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-28  6:49         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-28  8:22           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-28  9:51             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-29  9:12               ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-29 10:41                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-29 14:18                   ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-29 13:52                 ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-26 17:01     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-26 17:20       ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 18:15         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 19:49           ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 19:57             ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2015-09-26 20:09               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-26 20:19                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-27 16:30                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-27 18:06                     ` Matthew Garrett
2015-09-28  6:16                       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-28  6:41                         ` Matthew Garrett
2015-09-29 21:58                           ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-09-30  9:30                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-30 16:43                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 17:24                                 ` James Bottomley
2015-09-30  0:54                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-26 19:55         ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-27  6:50       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 12:48   ` [tip:core/urgent] x86/efi: Fix boot crash by mapping EFI memmap entries bottom-up at runtime, instead of top-down tip-bot for Matt Fleming
2015-10-02  9:44     ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-25 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64/efi: Don't pad between EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME regions Matt Fleming
2015-09-26  6:01   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-26  7:08     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-09-27  7:06       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-27 10:40         ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-28  6:20           ` Ingo Molnar
2015-09-29  9:31           ` Dave Young
2015-09-29 10:24             ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-29 14:36           ` Matt Fleming
2015-09-30  0:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  8:33               ` Borislav Petkov
2015-09-30  1:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  1:16           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30  1:19             ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-09-30  4:24             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-10-01 10:44           ` Ingo Molnar

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