[PATCH v3] efi/arm64: handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Sat Jul 5 00:25:35 PDT 2014


On 4 Jul 2014, at 18:19, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:
> On 4 July 2014 19:01, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 17:25 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>>>> If we cannot resolve the virtual address of the UEFI System Table, its physical
>>>> offset must be missing from the virtual memory map, and there is really no point
>>>> in proceeding with installing the virtual memory map and the runtime services
>>>> dispatch table. So back out gracefully.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>> 
>>> Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
>> 
>> Thanks. Do I take this patch or Matt already has other EFI patches to
>> push? If the latter:
>> 
>> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> 
> Thanks. You can take it for 3.16 if you like, otherwise it is probably
> better if we ask Matt to take it through his tree with some other
> stuff we have in flight at the moment.

OK, I’ll leave it to Matt then together with the other EFI patches
he’s already queuing.

Thanks,

Catalin


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