On Mon, 04 Aug, at 05:05:53PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > I think that makes sense. As I said, I don't have a strong preference > either way regarding the NMI handling, as it does not affect the > systems I am primarily concerned with (and it sounds like a big hack > anyway). What I /am/ concerned with is not getting code into the > kernel that turns out to be non-compliant a couple of months down the > road and having to fix it urgently then.
Right, that's a valid concern. > So other than GetVariable and SetVariable, or there any other services > that need the NMI treatment? The one and only (potential) NMI-context caller of EFI runtime services is efi_pstore_write(), which calls (as part of efivar_entry_set_safe()) QueryVariableInfo() and SetVariable(). -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
