[PATCH resend v2] arm64: dmi: Add SMBIOS/DMI support

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jul 21 03:38:15 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:18:37AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 21 July 2014 12:03, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:46:50PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/dmi.h
> >> @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
> > [...]
> >> +static inline void __iomem *dmi_remap(u64 phys, u64 size)
> >> +{
> >> +     void __iomem *p = efi_lookup_mapped_addr(phys);
> >
> > When are dmi_remap/dmi_early_remap() called? A quick grep through the
> > kernel shows that it is at least called once from dmi_scan_machine().
> > The latter is a device_initcall() in this patch. However, the comments
> > for efi_lookup_mapped_addr() state that it should only be called between
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode and efi_free_boot_services. The latter is invoked
> > from an early_initcall(). Could you please clarify which part is wrong
> > here?
> 
> The comment about efi_lookup_mapped_addr() is wrong. Those mappings
> are always available.
> As the comment is in shared code, I will propose a patch to Matt
> Fleming to clarify it.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll merge this patch as is.

-- 
Catalin



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