Re: [GIT PULL 00/20] More EFI updates for v5.6

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Mon Jan 13 2020 - 02:29:24 EST


On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 19:13, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 at 12:40, Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Ingo, Thomas,
> > >
> > > This is the second batch of EFI updates for v5.6. Two things are still
> > > under discussion, so I'll probably have a few more changes for this
> > > cycle in a week or so.
> > >
> > > The following changes since commit 0679715e714345d273c0e1eb78078535ffc4b2a1:
> > >
> > > efi/libstub/x86: Avoid globals to store context during mixed mode calls (2019-12-25 10:49:26 +0100)
> > >
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > >
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git tags/efi-next
> > >
> > > for you to fetch changes up to d95e4feae5368a91775c4597a8f298ba84f31535:
> > >
> > > efi/x86: avoid RWX mappings for all of DRAM (2020-01-03 11:46:15 +0100)
> > >
> >
> > Ingo, Thomas,
> >
> > I'll be submitting another PR later today or tomorrow that goes on top
> > of these changes. Please let me know if you would like a v2 of this PR
> > with the new content included, or rather keep them separate.
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> So there's one complication I noticed, there's conflicts with ongoing
> x86/mm work. I've merged x86/mm into efi/core (and will send the branches
> in that order in the merge window), and the final three patches conflict.
>
> Mind sending those three patches and your other patches on top of the
> latest efi/core (4444f8541dad)?
>

No problem. I'll rebase and retest, and send out the result end of
today or tomorrow.

Thanks,
Ard.