[PATCH] efi/arm64: store Runtime Services revision

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Tue Aug 26 02:05:33 PDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 03:55:22PM +0100, Semen Protsenko wrote:
> "efi" global data structure contains "runtime_version" field which must
> be assigned in order to use it later in Runtime Services virtual calls
> (virt_efi_* functions).
> 
> Before this patch "runtime_version" was unassigned (0), so each
> Runtime Service virtual call that checks revision would fail.
> 
> Runtime Services revision being passed in UEFI system table from UEFI
> to kernel (see efi_entry() function). In UEFI it's being stored at
> MdePkg/Include/Uefi/UefiSpec.h as EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_REVISION.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Semen Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> index e72f310..5dbb7bd 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c
> @@ -463,6 +463,8 @@ static int __init arm64_enter_virtual_mode(void)
>  	efi_native_runtime_setup();
>  	set_bit(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES, &efi.flags);
>  
> +	efi.runtime_version = efi.systab->hdr.revision;
> +
>  	return 0;

I doubt it makes any difference, but can we assign this before we call
efi_native_runtime_setup please?

Will



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