Re: [PATCH] efi: Disable interrupts around EFI calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Fleming
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 themse

[PATCH] efi: Disable interrupts around EFI calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls

2015-03-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
From 160eef628f9e803ba62707ec7f610ea9f0f13984 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 07:31:56 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] efi: Disable interrupts around EFI calls, not in the epilog/prolog calls Tapasweni Pathak reported that we do a kmalloc() in efi_call_phys_prolog() on x86-