From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933210AbcHJSQJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:16:09 -0400 Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.152.1]:53340 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753090AbcHJSQF (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:16:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:19:51 -0500 From: Alex Thorlton To: Alex Thorlton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russ Anderson , Dimitri Sivanich , Mike Travis , Matt Fleming , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map in physical addresses in efi_map_region_fixed Message-ID: <20160810171951.GA214806@stormcage.americas.sgi.com> References: <1470441575-96065-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1470441575-96065-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 06:59:35PM -0500, Alex Thorlton wrote: > This is a simple change to add in the physical mappings as well as the > virtual mappings in efi_map_region_fixed. The motivation here is to > get access to EFI runtime code that is only available via the 1:1 > mappings on a kexec'd kernel. > > The added call is essentially the kexec analog of the first __map_region > that Boris put in efi_map_region in commit d2f7cbe7b26a ("x86/efi: > Runtime services virtual mapping"). Just wanted to ping and see if anybody has had a chance to look at this? Also, linux-kernel looks broken today (latest e-mails on lkml look to be from last night?) so I wanted to send something to see if it goes through :) - Alex