Re: [PATCH] efi: permit calling efi_mem_reserve_persistent from atomic context

From: Qian Cai
Date: Thu Nov 08 2018 - 15:49:04 EST


On Thu, 2018-11-08 at 19:05 +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Currently, efi_mem_reserve_persistent() may not be called from atomic
> context, since both the kmalloc() call and the memremap() call may
> sleep.
>
> The kmalloc() call is easy enough to fix, but the memremap() call
> needs to be moved into an init hook since we cannot control the
> memory allocation behavior of memremap() at the call site.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>