Re: [PATCH V1 6/6] x86/efi: Introduce EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESSES

2018-08-10 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Prakhya, Sai Praneeth wrote: >> > +config EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESSES >> >> How about shortening the name to just 'EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS'? >> > > Makes sense.. I will shorten it. > >> > + bool "Warn about illegal memory accesses by firmware" >> > +

RE: [PATCH V1 6/6] x86/efi: Introduce EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESSES

2018-08-10 Thread Prakhya, Sai Praneeth
> > +config EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESSES > > How about shortening the name to just 'EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESS'? > Makes sense.. I will shorten it. > > + bool "Warn about illegal memory accesses by firmware" > > + depends on EFI > > From a distribution p-o-v, I would suggest that

Re: [PATCH V1 6/6] x86/efi: Introduce EFI_WARN_ON_ILLEGAL_ACCESSES

2018-08-10 Thread Bhupesh Sharma
Hello Sai, On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote: > From: Sai Praneeth > > There may exist some buggy UEFI firmware implementations that might > access efi regions other than EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_ even > after the kernel has assumed control of the platform. This violates