Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: turn EFI runtime semaphore into a global lock

2019-01-26 Thread Ard Biesheuvel
Hello Hedi, On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 11:46, Hedi Berriche wrote: > > Make efi_runtime_lock semaphore global so that it can be used by EFI > runtime callers that may be defined outside efi/runtime-wrappers.c. > > The immediate motivation is to piggy-back it to serialise UV platform BIOS > calls. > >

Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: turn EFI runtime semaphore into a global lock

2019-01-15 Thread Hedi Berriche
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 18:55 Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Hedi Berriche wrote: Make efi_runtime_lock semaphore global so that it can be used by EFI runtime callers that may be defined outside efi/runtime-wrappers.c. The changelog should mention why the lock is renamed. OK;

Re: [PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: turn EFI runtime semaphore into a global lock

2019-01-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Hedi Berriche wrote: > Make efi_runtime_lock semaphore global so that it can be used by EFI > runtime callers that may be defined outside efi/runtime-wrappers.c. The changelog should mention why the lock is renamed. I have no strong opinion, but to apply that I need an Ack

[PATCH 1/3] efi/x86: turn EFI runtime semaphore into a global lock

2019-01-09 Thread Hedi Berriche
Make efi_runtime_lock semaphore global so that it can be used by EFI runtime callers that may be defined outside efi/runtime-wrappers.c. The immediate motivation is to piggy-back it to serialise UV platform BIOS calls. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Hedi Berriche Reviewed-by: Russ