[PATCH v4 07/12] efi: passing kexec necessary efi data via setup_data

[Toshi Kani]

On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 15:33 -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 17:14 +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 11/27/13 at 03:07pm, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 01:57:52PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > Add a new setup_data type SETUP_EFI for kexec use.
> > > > Passing the saved fw_vendor, runtime, config tables and
> > > > efi runtime mappings.
> > > > 
> > > > When entering virtual mode, directly mapping the efi
> > > > runtime ragions which we passed in previously. And skip
> > > > the step to call SetVirtualAddressMap.
> > > > 
> > > > Specially for HP z420 workstation it need another variable
> > > > saving,
> > > 
> > > Why the special handling? Does that mean, this is going to be the case
> > > for other HP UEFI implementations too?
> > 
> > I have only one HP machine for testing, Maybe Toshi can help to verify
> > on other machines. Just comment out the function efi_reuse_config to see
> > if kexec kernel panic.
> 
> My system (HP prototype server) did not need the special handling in
> efi_reuse_config().  I will check with firmware team to get more
> information on this.

I have one question.  I think this special handling assumes that
efi.smbios contains a virtual address on HP z420.  So, how does the 1st
kernel set a virtual address to efi.smbios in the first place?

Thanks,
-Toshi