> > There may exist some buggy UEFI firmware implementations that might > > access efi regions other than EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_<CODE/DATA> even > > after the kernel has assumed control of the platform. This violates > > UEFI specification. > > > > If selected, this debug option will print a warning message if the > > UEFI firmware tries to access any memory region which it shouldn't. > > Along with the warning, the efi page fault handler will also try to > > recover from the page fault triggered by the firmware so that the > > machine doesn't hang. > > Why make this optional?
I made it as a config option in RFC because the page fault handler was complicated and touching many parts (it had lots of code change and I didn't want to break any existing functionality). Now that it's simple, I don't think we need the config option. Without efi page fault handler, any page fault caused by firmware should panic kernel but with this patch I think we are just improving existing condition (ideally). So, if Thomas, Ingo, Andy, Ard and Boris are ok.. I will make it as default (i.e. without config). Regards, Sai
