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<title>Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T00:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T00:17:42+00:00</published>
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Pull x86/EFI changes from Peter Anvin:

 - Improve the initrd handling in the EFI boot stub by allowing forward
   slashes in the pathname - from Chun-Yi Lee.

 - Cleanup code duplication in the EFI mixed kernel/firmware code - from
   Satoru Takeuchi.

 - efivarfs bug fixes for more strict filename validation, with lots of
   input from Al Viro.

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove duplicate code in setup_arch() by using, efi_is_native()
  efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive
  efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively
  efivarfs: Use sizeof() instead of magic number
  x86, efi: Allow slash in file path of initrd
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Pull x86/EFI changes from Peter Anvin:

 - Improve the initrd handling in the EFI boot stub by allowing forward
   slashes in the pathname - from Chun-Yi Lee.

 - Cleanup code duplication in the EFI mixed kernel/firmware code - from
   Satoru Takeuchi.

 - efivarfs bug fixes for more strict filename validation, with lots of
   input from Al Viro.

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove duplicate code in setup_arch() by using, efi_is_native()
  efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive
  efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively
  efivarfs: Use sizeof() instead of magic number
  x86, efi: Allow slash in file path of initrd
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<entry>
<title>memory-hotplug: remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X sysfs</title>
<updated>2013-02-24T01:50:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yasuaki Ishimatsu</name>
<email>isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-23T00:32:56+00:00</published>
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When (hot)adding memory into system, /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start,
type} sysfs files are created.  But there is no code to remove these
files.  This patch implements the function to remove them.

We cannot free firmware_map_entry which is allocated by bootmem because
there is no way to do so when the system is up.  But we can at least
remember the address of that memory and reuse the storage when the
memory is added next time.

This patch also introduces a new list map_entries_bootmem to link the
map entries allocated by bootmem when they are removed, and a lock to
protect it.  And these entries will be reused when the memory is
hot-added again.

The idea is suggestted by Andrew Morton.

NOTE: It is unsafe to return an entry pointer and release the
      map_entries_lock.  So we should not hold the map_entries_lock
      separately in firmware_map_find_entry() and
      firmware_map_remove_entry().  Hold the map_entries_lock across find
      and remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X operation.

       And also, users of these two functions need to be careful to
      hold the lock when using these two functions.

[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: Hold spinlock across find|remove /sys operation]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the wrong comments of map_entries]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: reuse the storage of /sys/firmware/memmap/X/ allocated by bootmem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix section mismatch problem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the doc format in drivers/firmware/memmap.c]
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Calaby &lt;julian.calaby@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When (hot)adding memory into system, /sys/firmware/memmap/X/{end, start,
type} sysfs files are created.  But there is no code to remove these
files.  This patch implements the function to remove them.

We cannot free firmware_map_entry which is allocated by bootmem because
there is no way to do so when the system is up.  But we can at least
remember the address of that memory and reuse the storage when the
memory is added next time.

This patch also introduces a new list map_entries_bootmem to link the
map entries allocated by bootmem when they are removed, and a lock to
protect it.  And these entries will be reused when the memory is
hot-added again.

The idea is suggestted by Andrew Morton.

NOTE: It is unsafe to return an entry pointer and release the
      map_entries_lock.  So we should not hold the map_entries_lock
      separately in firmware_map_find_entry() and
      firmware_map_remove_entry().  Hold the map_entries_lock across find
      and remove /sys/firmware/memmap/X operation.

       And also, users of these two functions need to be careful to
      hold the lock when using these two functions.

[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: Hold spinlock across find|remove /sys operation]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the wrong comments of map_entries]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: reuse the storage of /sys/firmware/memmap/X/ allocated by bootmem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix section mismatch problem]
[tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com: fix the doc format in drivers/firmware/memmap.c]
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang &lt;wency@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu &lt;isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jianguo Wu &lt;wujianguo@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Tang Chen &lt;tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Julian Calaby &lt;julian.calaby@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux</title>
<updated>2013-02-21T17:38:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-21T17:38:18+00:00</published>
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Pull pstore patches from Tony Luck:
 "A few fixes to reduce places where pstore might hang a system in the
  crash path.  Plus a new mountpoint (/sys/fs/pstore ...  makes more
  sense then /dev/pstore)."

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/firmware/efivars.c

* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore
  efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
  efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars-&gt;lock
  efi_pstore: Avoid deadlock in non-blocking paths
  pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path
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Pull pstore patches from Tony Luck:
 "A few fixes to reduce places where pstore might hang a system in the
  crash path.  Plus a new mountpoint (/sys/fs/pstore ...  makes more
  sense then /dev/pstore)."

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/firmware/efivars.c

* tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
  pstore: Create a convenient mount point for pstore
  efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs
  efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars-&gt;lock
  efi_pstore: Avoid deadlock in non-blocking paths
  pstore: Avoid deadlock in panic and emergency-restart path
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<entry>
<title>efi_pstore: Introducing workqueue updating sysfs</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T21:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seiji Aguchi</name>
<email>seiji.aguchi@hds.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-12T21:04:41+00:00</published>
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[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.

[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.

Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.

efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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[Problem]
efi_pstore creates sysfs entries, which enable users to access to NVRAM,
in a write callback. If a kernel panic happens in an interrupt context,
it may fail because it could sleep due to dynamic memory allocations during
creating sysfs entries.

[Patch Description]
This patch removes sysfs operations from a write callback by introducing
a workqueue updating sysfs entries which is scheduled after the write
callback is called.

Also, the workqueue is kicked in a just oops case.
A system will go down in other cases such as panic, clean shutdown and emergency
restart. And we don't need to create sysfs entries because there is no chance for
users to access to them.

efi_pstore will be robust against a kernel panic in an interrupt context with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>efivars: Disable external interrupt while holding efivars-&gt;lock</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T20:59:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seiji Aguchi</name>
<email>seiji.aguchi@hds.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-12T20:59:07+00:00</published>
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[Problem]
There is a scenario which efi_pstore fails to log messages in a panic case.

 - CPUA holds an efi_var-&gt;lock in either efivarfs parts
   or efi_pstore with interrupt enabled.
 - CPUB panics and sends IPI to CPUA in smp_send_stop().
 - CPUA stops with holding the lock.
 - CPUB kicks efi_pstore_write() via kmsg_dump(KSMG_DUMP_PANIC)
   but it returns without logging messages.

[Patch Description]
This patch disables an external interruption while holding efivars-&gt;lock
as follows.

In efi_pstore_write() and get_var_data(), spin_lock/spin_unlock is
replaced by spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore because they may
be called in an interrupt context.

In other functions, they are replaced by spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq.
because they are all called from a process context.

By applying this patch, we can avoid the problem above with
a following senario.

 - CPUA holds an efi_var-&gt;lock with interrupt disabled.
 - CPUB panics and sends IPI to CPUA in smp_send_stop().
 - CPUA receives the IPI after releasing the lock because it is
   disabling interrupt while holding the lock.
 - CPUB waits for one sec until CPUA releases the lock.
 - CPUB kicks efi_pstore_write() via kmsg_dump(KSMG_DUMP_PANIC)
   And it can hold the lock successfully.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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[Problem]
There is a scenario which efi_pstore fails to log messages in a panic case.

 - CPUA holds an efi_var-&gt;lock in either efivarfs parts
   or efi_pstore with interrupt enabled.
 - CPUB panics and sends IPI to CPUA in smp_send_stop().
 - CPUA stops with holding the lock.
 - CPUB kicks efi_pstore_write() via kmsg_dump(KSMG_DUMP_PANIC)
   but it returns without logging messages.

[Patch Description]
This patch disables an external interruption while holding efivars-&gt;lock
as follows.

In efi_pstore_write() and get_var_data(), spin_lock/spin_unlock is
replaced by spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore because they may
be called in an interrupt context.

In other functions, they are replaced by spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq.
because they are all called from a process context.

By applying this patch, we can avoid the problem above with
a following senario.

 - CPUA holds an efi_var-&gt;lock with interrupt disabled.
 - CPUB panics and sends IPI to CPUA in smp_send_stop().
 - CPUA receives the IPI after releasing the lock because it is
   disabling interrupt while holding the lock.
 - CPUB waits for one sec until CPUA releases the lock.
 - CPUB kicks efi_pstore_write() via kmsg_dump(KSMG_DUMP_PANIC)
   And it can hold the lock successfully.

Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi &lt;seiji.aguchi@hds.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Waychison &lt;mikew@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T12:41:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-01T11:02:28+00:00</published>
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It makes no sense to treat the following filenames as unique,

	VarName-abcdefab-abcd-abcd-abcd-abcdefabcdef
	VarName-ABCDEFAB-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCDEFABCDEF
	VarName-ABcDEfAB-ABcD-ABcD-ABcD-ABcDEfABcDEf
	VarName-aBcDEfAB-aBcD-aBcD-aBcD-aBcDEfaBcDEf
	... etc ...

since the guid will be converted into a binary representation, which
has no case.

Roll our own dentry operations so that we can treat the variable name
part of filenames ("VarName" in the above example) as case-sensitive,
but the guid portion as case-insensitive. That way, efivarfs will
refuse to create the above files if any one already exists.

Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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It makes no sense to treat the following filenames as unique,

	VarName-abcdefab-abcd-abcd-abcd-abcdefabcdef
	VarName-ABCDEFAB-ABCD-ABCD-ABCD-ABCDEFABCDEF
	VarName-ABcDEfAB-ABcD-ABcD-ABcD-ABcDEfABcDEf
	VarName-aBcDEfAB-aBcD-aBcD-aBcD-aBcDEfaBcDEf
	... etc ...

since the guid will be converted into a binary representation, which
has no case.

Roll our own dentry operations so that we can treat the variable name
part of filenames ("VarName" in the above example) as case-sensitive,
but the guid portion as case-insensitive. That way, efivarfs will
refuse to create the above files if any one already exists.

Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively</title>
<updated>2013-02-12T12:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-31T19:02:03+00:00</published>
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The only thing that efivarfs does to enforce a valid filename is
ensure that the name isn't too short. We need to strongly sanitise any
filenames, not least because variable creation is delayed until
efivarfs_file_write(), which means we can't rely on the firmware to
inform us of an invalid name, because if the file is never written to
we'll never know it's invalid.

Perform a couple of steps before agreeing to create a new file,

  * hex_to_bin() returns a value indicating whether or not it was able
    to convert its arguments to a binary representation - we should
    check it.

  * Ensure that the GUID portion of the filename is the correct length
    and format.

  * The variable name portion of the filename needs to be at least one
    character in size.

Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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The only thing that efivarfs does to enforce a valid filename is
ensure that the name isn't too short. We need to strongly sanitise any
filenames, not least because variable creation is delayed until
efivarfs_file_write(), which means we can't rely on the firmware to
inform us of an invalid name, because if the file is never written to
we'll never know it's invalid.

Perform a couple of steps before agreeing to create a new file,

  * hex_to_bin() returns a value indicating whether or not it was able
    to convert its arguments to a binary representation - we should
    check it.

  * Ensure that the GUID portion of the filename is the correct length
    and format.

  * The variable name portion of the filename needs to be at least one
    character in size.

Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efivarfs: Use sizeof() instead of magic number</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T14:44:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-11T13:30:46+00:00</published>
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Instead of adding a magic 4 to the variable size, use sizeof() to make
it explicitly clear what the quantity represents (the variable's
attributes).

CC: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee &lt;joeyli.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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Instead of adding a magic 4 to the variable size, use sizeof() to make
it explicitly clear what the quantity represents (the variable's
attributes).

CC: Jeremy Kerr &lt;jeremy.kerr@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi Lee &lt;joeyli.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Whitcroft &lt;apw@canonical.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang &lt;lxiang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-01-31T06:10:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-31T06:10:36+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 EFI fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a collection of fixes for the EFI support.  The controversial
  bit here is a set of patches which bumps the boot protocol version as
  part of fixing some serious problems with the EFI handover protocol,
  used when booting under EFI using a bootloader as opposed to directly
  from EFI.  These changes should also make it a lot saner to support
  cross-mode 32/64-bit EFI booting in the future.  Getting these changes
  into 3.8 means we avoid presenting an inconsistent ABI to bootloaders.

  Other changes are display detection and fixing efivarfs."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove attribute check from setup_efi_pci
  x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code
  x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode
  x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point
  x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub
  x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol
  x86/boot: Fix minor fd leakage in tools/relocs.c
  x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision
  x86, efi: fix 32-bit warnings in setup_efi_pci()
  efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write()
  efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware
  efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog
  efivarfs: Drop link count of the right inode
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Pull x86 EFI fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "This is a collection of fixes for the EFI support.  The controversial
  bit here is a set of patches which bumps the boot protocol version as
  part of fixing some serious problems with the EFI handover protocol,
  used when booting under EFI using a bootloader as opposed to directly
  from EFI.  These changes should also make it a lot saner to support
  cross-mode 32/64-bit EFI booting in the future.  Getting these changes
  into 3.8 means we avoid presenting an inconsistent ABI to bootloaders.

  Other changes are display detection and fixing efivarfs."

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, efi: remove attribute check from setup_efi_pci
  x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code
  x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode
  x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point
  x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub
  x86, boot: Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol
  x86/boot: Fix minor fd leakage in tools/relocs.c
  x86, efi: Set runtime_version to the EFI spec revision
  x86, efi: fix 32-bit warnings in setup_efi_pci()
  efivarfs: Delete dentry from dcache in efivarfs_file_write()
  efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware
  efi, x86: Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog
  efivarfs: Drop link count of the right inode
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<title>efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities</title>
<updated>2013-01-30T19:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-14T09:42:35+00:00</published>
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Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Corentin Chary &lt;corentincj@iksaif.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Langasek &lt;steve.langasek@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Corentin Chary &lt;corentincj@iksaif.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Langasek &lt;steve.langasek@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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