Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:36:18 +0000 | From | Matt Fleming <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] efi: Disable interrupts around EFI calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls |
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On Tue, 03 Mar, at 07:34:33AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So why are interrupts disabled around page table operations to begin > with? It's not like any of this can execute on two CPUs at once, nor > can this be executed from interrupt context. > > So, shouldn't we only protect the EFI calls themselves? If we did that > we could save the efi_flags global variable ugliness as well. > > I.e. something like the attached patch. (not tested and all that)
Looks good to me Ingo. I'll run it through the test farm. Thanks!
-- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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