Re: [PATCH 0/2] Make capsules in a contiguous virtual space

From: Richard Ruigrok
Date: Thu Dec 21 2017 - 16:47:22 EST


Please tested-by
Tested on Centiq, applied on v4.15-rc4.
This fixes the regression introduced in 4.13 where the capsule is no longer passed in contiguous virtual memory.

On 12/19/2017 3:49 AM, Ge Song wrote:
> Recently we found it failed to update firmware through capsule update
> mechanism in linux-4.14 and later version.
>
> After some investigation, the reason is firmware expects capsules in a
> contiguous virtual space and this assumption is not satisfied in recent
> linux versions.
>
> Ge Song (2):
> Revert "efi/capsule-loader: Use page addresses rather than struct page
> pointers"
> efi/capsule-loader: Request a contiguous virtual space for capsules
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/capsule-loader.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
> drivers/firmware/efi/capsule.c | 7 +++----
> include/linux/efi.h | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>

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