Re: [PATCH v2] efi: Allow to enable EFI runtime services by default on RT

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

Hello Ahmed,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 9:36 PM Ahmed S. Darwish
<a.darwish@linutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard, Javier,
>
> Am Do, Mar 31, 2022, schrieb Ard Biesheuvel:
> > On Thu, 31 Mar 2022 at 17:17, Javier Martinez Canillas
> > <javierm@redhat.com> wrote:
>

[snip]

> In case of (CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y && CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME=n),
> shouldn't we add a small message in the kernel log warning that EFI
> runtime services are enabled for the RT kernel?
>
> In almost all HW, except custom ones with "verified" firmware, such a
> warning would be useful... This is especially true since in the embedded

I considered that as well but was not sure about what that message should be.

Since it will be printed even on systems whose EFI firmwares do not
have such long call times as the ones described in the commit that
disabled the runtime services for RT.

And in that case the warning may be misleading and make users believe
that a problem exists, which might not be accurate.

> domain, manually-configured RT kernels are almost always the norm.
>

Agreed. That is why the default for CONFIG_EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME=y, if
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y. So users will need to explicitly disable the
option if they want the EFI runtime services to be enabled with
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

Best regards,
Javier