From 83e68189745ad931c2afd45d8ee3303929233e7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Fleming Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:42:35 +0000 Subject: efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities 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. The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557 which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become bricked. Also, the following report, https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121 details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression, if (!efi_enabled) hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time. 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). This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch. Cc: David Airlie Cc: Corentin Chary Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Dave Jiang Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Peter Jones Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Steve Langasek Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c') diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c index fd3ae6290d71..982f1f5f5742 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void) char __iomem *p, *q; int rc; - if (efi_enabled) { + if (efi_enabled(EFI_CONFIG_TABLES)) { if (efi.smbios == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) goto error; -- cgit v1.2.3