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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Linux EFI <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:21:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621142101.GG22006@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca8f8134-24d9-4f96-8876-e24892efc849@email.android.com>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 03:05:30AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> If you cap it you are basically imposing a constraint on the firmware
> and may not run properly (or at least have to turn off EFI runtime
> calls with all that implies.)

I don't want to cap EFI just for the fun of it but rather set a limit
so that the next one who wants a chunk of the virtual address space can
have a reliable limit from where she/he can start. Otherwise we won't
know where EFI reliably ends...

> It might be good to have a sanity check but it needs to be pretty
> generous.

64 Gb generous enough?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-21 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 17:50 Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 1/4] efi: Convert runtime services function ptrs Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:15   ` [PATCH] [IA64] sim: Add casts to avoid assignment warnings Luck, Tony
2013-06-20 23:43     ` Tony Luck
2013-06-21 10:26       ` Fleming, Matt
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 2/4] x86, cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 3/4] x86, efi: Add an efi= kernel command line parameter Borislav Petkov
2013-06-17 17:50 ` [PATCH -v2 4/4] x86, efi: Map runtime services 1:1 Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 11:56   ` Matt Fleming
2013-07-03  6:19   ` joeyli
2013-06-19 12:52 ` [PATCH -v2 0/4] EFI 1:1 mapping Ingo Molnar
2013-06-19 13:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 13:04     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-19 13:25       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:08       ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:18         ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:21           ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:38             ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 16:48               ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 16:59                 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 21:26                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21  6:34                   ` Matt Fleming
2013-06-19 16:50               ` James Bottomley
2013-06-20  9:13         ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-20  9:15           ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20  9:22             ` Ingo Molnar
2013-06-20  9:33               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20  9:44                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 14:33                   ` Jiri Kosina
2013-06-20 14:53                   ` James Bottomley
2013-06-20 16:29                     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 16:44                       ` Jiri Kosina
2013-06-20 16:53                         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 16:46                       ` James Bottomley
2013-06-20 16:54                         ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 17:01                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 17:12                             ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:08                               ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:10                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:14                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 18:17                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-20 18:47                                       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-20 22:35                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21  7:23                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-21 10:05                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-21 14:21                                               ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-06-21 16:42                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-02  7:29                                                   ` Pavel Machek
2013-06-19 16:05     ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-19 17:25     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-19 17:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-06-19 17:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-06-19 17:50           ` Borislav Petkov

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