Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities

[Dave Jiang]

On 01/21/2013 01:40 PM, Matt Fleming wrote:
> From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
> EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
> indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
> bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.
>
> But users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
> what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
> facilities.
>
> For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
> the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
> the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
> mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
> driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
> would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).
>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h             |  1 +
>   arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c               |  2 +-
>   arch/x86/kernel/setup.c                | 28 ++++++++---------
>   arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c            | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>   drivers/acpi/osl.c                     |  2 +-
>   drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c            |  2 +-
>   drivers/firmware/efivars.c             |  4 +--
>   drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft_find.c     |  2 +-
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c |  3 +-
>   drivers/platform/x86/ibm_rtl.c         |  2 +-
>   drivers/scsi/isci/init.c               |  2 +-
>   include/linux/efi.h                    | 24 +++++++++++----
>   init/main.c                            |  4 +--
>   13 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
<snipped>

> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/isci/init.c b/drivers/scsi/isci/init.c
> index b74050b..9ac1e9d 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/isci/init.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/isci/init.c
> @@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ static int __devinit isci_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_devic
>   		return -ENOMEM;
>   	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, pci_info);
>   
> -	if (efi_enabled)
> +	if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
>   		orom = isci_get_efi_var(pdev);
>   
>   	if (!orom)
I think that here we may need to be checking efi_enabled(EFI_BOOT) 
instead. We are interested in the kernel was booted from EFI and that 
EFI variables support is present. Or is getting efi variable part of 
runtime services?


> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index 8b84916..7a9498a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -618,18 +618,30 @@ extern int __init efi_setup_pcdp_console(char *);
>   #endif
>   
>   /*
> - * We play games with efi_enabled so that the compiler will, if possible, remove
> - * EFI-related code altogether.
> + * We play games with efi_enabled so that the compiler will, if
> + * possible, remove EFI-related code altogether.
>    */
> +#define EFI_BOOT		0	/* Were we booted from EFI? */
> +#define EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES	1	/* Can we use EFI system tables? */
> +#define EFI_CONFIG_TABLES	2	/* Can we use EFI config tables? */
> +#define EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES	3	/* Can we use runtime services? */
> +#define EFI_MEMMAP		4	/* Can we use EFI memory map? */
> +#define EFI_64BIT		5	/* Is the firmware 64-bit? */
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_EFI
>   # ifdef CONFIG_X86
> -   extern int efi_enabled;
> -   extern bool efi_64bit;
> +extern int efi_enabled(int facility);
>   # else
> -#  define efi_enabled 1
> +static inline int efi_enabled(int facility)
> +{
> +	return 1;
> +}
>   # endif
>   #else
> -# define efi_enabled 0
> +static inline int efi_enabled(int facility)
> +{
> +	return 0;
> +}
>   #endif
>   
>   /*
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index 85d69df..cd30179 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -604,7 +604,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>   	pidmap_init();
>   	anon_vma_init();
>   #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> -	if (efi_enabled)
> +	if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
>   		efi_enter_virtual_mode();
>   #endif
>   	thread_info_cache_init();
> @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
>   	acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
>   	sfi_init_late();
>   
> -	if (efi_enabled) {
> +	if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) {
>   		efi_late_init();
>   		efi_free_boot_services();
>   	}

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