[PATCH v2] ARM: efi: Simplify arch_efi_call_virt() macro

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Tue Jun 28 09:49:35 PDT 2022


On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 18:45, Russell King (Oracle)
<linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 06:29:52PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 16:18, Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Currently, the arch_efi_call_virt() assumes all users of it will have
> > > defined a type 'efi_##f##_t' to make use of it. It is unnecessarily
> > > forcing the users to create a new typedef when __efi_rt_asm_wrapper()
> > > actually expects void pointer.
> > >
> > > Simplify the arch_efi_call_virt() macro by eliminating the explicit
> > > need for efi_##f##_t type for every user of this macro.
> > >
> > > This change is done to align with implementations on other similar
> > > architectures.
> > >
> > > Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
> >
> > I'll queue this one up right away in the EFI tree, unless Russell has
> > something else in mind?
>
> No, looks good, thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
>

OK, thanks - queued in efi/next.



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