On 13 July 2018 at 04:01, Prakhya, Sai Praneeth
<sai.praneeth.prak...@intel.com> wrote:
>> The UEFI spec does not permit runtime services to be called reentrantly, and 
>> so
>> it is up to the OS to provide proper locking around such calls.
>>
>> For the native case, this was fixed a long time ago, but for the mixed mode 
>> case,
>> no locking is done whatsoever. Note that the calls are made with preemption
>> and interrupts disabled, so only SMP configurations are affected by this 
>> issue.
>>
>> So add a spinlock and grab it when invoking a UEFI runtime service in mixed
>> mode. We will also need to provide non-blocking versions of SetVariable() and
>> QueryVariableInfo(), so add those as well.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org>
>
> FWIW, this patch looks good to me.
>

Thanks Sai. I will take this as an acked-by


> Regards,
> Sai
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