Re: [PATCH 0/6] efi/x86 mixed mode cleanups

On 14 July 2018 at 13:41, Lukas Wunner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:54:29PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> Did you have any thoughts about how we could at least detect >> situations where we are invoking protocols that are not mixed-mode >> safe (i.e., they pass 64-bit quantities by value,

Re: [PATCH 2/8] efi/x86: Use non-blocking SetVariable() for efi_delete_dummy_variable()

* Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > From: Sai Praneeth > > Presently, efi_delete_dummy_variable() uses set_variable() which might > block and hence kernel prints stack trace with a warning "bad: > scheduling from the idle thread!". So, make efi_delete_dummy_variable() > use set_variable_nonblocking(),

RE: [PATCH 2/8] efi/x86: Use non-blocking SetVariable() for efi_delete_dummy_variable()

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c index 36c1f8b9f7e0..6af39dc40325 > > 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > @@ -105,12 +105,11 @@ early_param("efi_no_storage_paranoia", > > setup_storage_paran

Re: [PATCH 2/8] efi/x86: Use non-blocking SetVariable() for efi_delete_dummy_variable()

* Prakhya, Sai Praneeth wrote: > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > > b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c index 36c1f8b9f7e0..6af39dc40325 > > > 100644 > > > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c > > > @@ -105,12 +105,11 @@ early_param("ef