Re: [tip:x86/efi] x86/efi: Check for unsafe dealing with FPU state in irq ctxt

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jun 04 2014 - 18:55:03 EST


On 06/04/2014 03:49 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:17:30PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I seem to have lost track of this... does this actually solve
>> anything, or does it just mean we'll explode hard?
>
> Not that hard - it'll warn once only.
>
> AFAIR, the discussion stalled but we were going in the direction of not
> calling into efi from pstore in irq context.
>
> I'd say we drop this until we have a proper solution.
>

Works for me.

-hpa

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