On Thu, 18 Jan, at 01:01:04PM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote: > From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prak...@intel.com> > > Presently, in x86, to invoke any efi function like > efi_set_virtual_address_map() or any efi_runtime_service() the code path > typically involves read_cr3() (save previous pgd), write_cr3() > (write efi_pgd) and calling efi function. Likewise after returning from > efi function the code path typically involves read_cr3() (save efi_pgd), > write_cr3() (write previous pgd). We do this couple of times in efi > subsystem of Linux kernel, instead we can use helper function > efi_switch_mm() to do this. This improves readability and maintainability. > Also, instead of maintaining a separate struct "efi_scratch" to store/restore > efi_pgd, we can use mm_struct to do this. FWIW this series looks OK to me.
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <m...@codeblueprint.co.uk>
