Re: [patch 3/6] Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function

From: Dave Young
Date: Mon Oct 28 2013 - 05:52:15 EST


On 10/28/13 at 05:40pm, Dave Young wrote:
> On 10/28/13 at 10:32am, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:47:16AM +0800, dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Add two small functions:
> > > efi_merge_regions and efi_map_regions, efi_enter_virtual_mode
> > > calls them instead of embedding two long for loop.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > > 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > --- efi.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> > > +++ efi/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> > > @@ -789,35 +789,13 @@ void __init old_map_region(efi_memory_de
> > > pr_err("ioremap of 0x%llX failed!\n",
> > > (unsigned long long)md->phys_addr);
> > > }
> > > -/*
> > > - * This function will switch the EFI runtime services to virtual mode.
> > > - * Essentially, look through the EFI memmap and map every region that
> > > - * has the runtime attribute bit set in its memory descriptor and update
> > > - * that memory descriptor with the virtual address obtained from ioremap().
> > > - * This enables the runtime services to be called without having to
> > > - * thunk back into physical mode for every invocation.
> > > - */
> > > -void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> > > -{
> > > - efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> > > - void *p, *new_memmap = NULL;
> > > - unsigned long size;
> > > - efi_status_t status;
> > > - u64 end, systab;
> > > - int count = 0;
> > >
> > > - efi.systab = NULL;
> > > -
> > > - /*
> > > - * We don't do virtual mode, since we don't do runtime services, on
> > > - * non-native EFI
> > > - */
> > > - if (!efi_is_native()) {
> > > - efi_unmap_memmap();
> > > - return;
> > > - }
> > > +/* Merge contiguous regions of the same type and attribute */
> > > +static void efi_merge_regions(void)
> > > +{
> > > + void *p;
> > > + efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> > >
> > > - /* Merge contiguous regions of the same type and attribute */
> > > for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
> > > u64 prev_size;
> > > md = p;
> > > @@ -844,6 +822,19 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
> > > prev_md = md;
> > >
> > > }
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +/*
> > > + * Map efi memory ranges for runtime serivce
> > > + * Return the new memmap with updated virtual addrresses.
> > > + */
> > > +void efi_map_regions(void **new_memmap, int *count)
> > > +{
> > > + efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> >
> > Applying: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
> > /home/boris/kernel/linux-2.6/.git/rebase-apply/patch:42: space before tab in indent.
> > efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
> > error: patch failed: arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c:862
> > error: arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c: patch does not apply
> > Patch failed at 0001 Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
> >
> > And I know git can be a bit pickier than patch but it doesn't apply with patch
> > either:
> >
> > $ patch -p1 --dry-run -i .git/rebase-apply/patch
> > checking file arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
> > Hunk #3 FAILED at 853.
> > 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED
> >
> > For some reason, this patch doesn't apply and the .rej looks funny.
>
> It's stange, but I did use git to generate patch, I use quilt instead.
> Will have a try with git.

It does have a warning, but it applied successfully, no idea though:
patches/02-efi-enter-virtual-mode-cleanup.patch
Applying: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode function
/home/dave/git/efi/.git/rebase-apply/patch:42: space before tab in indent.
efi_memory_desc_t *md, *prev_md = NULL;
warning: 1 line adds whitespace errors.
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