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!

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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