From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932597AbcILK6T (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2016 06:58:19 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:35046 "EHLO mail-wm0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754615AbcILK6P (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2016 06:58:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:58:13 +0100 From: Matt Fleming To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, Alex Thorlton , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Borislav Petkov , Colin Ian King , Dave Young , Dimitri Sivanich , Greg KH , Ivan Hu , James Morse , joeyli , Josh Boyer , Josh Triplett , Julia Lawall , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Leif Lindholm , Lukas Wunner , Mark Rutland , Markus Elfring , Michel Lespinasse , Mike Travis , Mike Waychison , =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=F4she?= van der Sterre , Paolo Bonzini , Peter Jones , Ricardo Neri , Russ Anderson , Scott Lawson , Sylvain Chouleur , Taku Izumi , Tony Luck , Xishi Qiu Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Message-ID: <20160912105813.GC3872@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <20160909151851.27577-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160909151851.27577-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24+41 (02bc14ed1569) (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 09 Sep, at 04:18:22PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > Folks, please queue up the following patches for v4.9. There's more > work on refactoring EFI code to be architecture independent and the > largest number of patches is spent cleaning up the EFI memory map code > and allowing drivers on x86 to reserve EFI boot services for all of > runtime. > > The architecture independent quest is going pretty well and it was > only a couple of lines to get the esrt driver working on arm64. > > Other than that there's some cleanups and fixes, and a merge of the > out of tree EFI runtime driver from the FWTS project. Ard just raised the point that some of the changes in this pull, particularly the conversion of the EFI runtime services from spinlock-protection to semaphore, would benefit enormously from testing in linux-next before the merge window. Could someone please pull these changes into tip soon so that we can get as much testing done as possible? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [GIT PULL 00/29] EFI changes for v4.9 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 11:58:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20160912105813.GC3872@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <20160909151851.27577-1-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160909151851.27577-1-matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H . Peter Anvin" Cc: Ard Biesheuvel , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Alex Thorlton , Andy Lutomirski , Borislav Petkov , Borislav Petkov , Colin Ian King , Dave Young , Dimitri Sivanich , Greg KH , Ivan Hu , James Morse , joeyli , Josh Boyer , Josh Triplett , Julia Lawall , Kamezawa Hiroyuki , Leif Lindholm , Lukas Wunner , Mark Rutland List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 09 Sep, at 04:18:22PM, Matt Fleming wrote: > Folks, please queue up the following patches for v4.9. There's more > work on refactoring EFI code to be architecture independent and the > largest number of patches is spent cleaning up the EFI memory map code > and allowing drivers on x86 to reserve EFI boot services for all of > runtime. > > The architecture independent quest is going pretty well and it was > only a couple of lines to get the esrt driver working on arm64. > > Other than that there's some cleanups and fixes, and a merge of the > out of tree EFI runtime driver from the FWTS project. Ard just raised the point that some of the changes in this pull, particularly the conversion of the EFI runtime services from spinlock-protection to semaphore, would benefit enormously from testing in linux-next before the merge window. Could someone please pull these changes into tip soon so that we can get as much testing done as possible?