[PATCH 12/17] Add proper definitions for some EFI function pointers.

Mark Salter msalter at redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 10:10:13 EDT 2013


On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 20:45 -0700, Roy Franz wrote:
> The x86/AMD64 EFI stubs must us a call wrapper to convert between
> the Linux and EFI ABIs, so void pointers are sufficient.  For ARM,
> the ABIs are compatible, so we can directly invoke the function
> pointers.  The functions that are used by the ARM stub are updated
> to match the EFI definitions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz at linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/efi.h |   42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index 51f5641..96bb866 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@
>  typedef unsigned long efi_status_t;
>  typedef u8 efi_bool_t;
>  typedef u16 efi_char16_t;		/* UNICODE character */
> +typedef u64 efi_physical_addr_t;
> +typedef void *efi_handle_t;
>  
> 
>  typedef struct {
> @@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ typedef	struct {
>  #define EFI_MEMORY_DESCRIPTOR_VERSION	1
>  
>  #define EFI_PAGE_SHIFT		12
> +#define EFI_PAGE_SIZE		(1UL << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)
>  
>  typedef struct {
>  	u32 type;
> @@ -157,11 +160,12 @@ typedef struct {
>  	efi_table_hdr_t hdr;
>  	void *raise_tpl;
>  	void *restore_tpl;
> -	void *allocate_pages;
> -	void *free_pages;
> -	void *get_memory_map;
> -	void *allocate_pool;
> -	void *free_pool;
> +	int (*allocate_pages)(int, int, unsigned long, efi_physical_addr_t *);
> +	int (*free_pages)(efi_physical_addr_t, unsigned long);

All of the actual function pointers that were added should return an
efi_status_t instead of int. On arm64, I was seeing an unrecognizable
error status because the truncation from 64 to 32 bits.

--Mark





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