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authorMike Waychison <mikew@google.com>2011-03-12 04:43:27 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-03-14 18:40:51 +0300
commit4fc756bd9dbf6b84fbf751e3bf495277849c5db7 (patch)
treed7f71d68344385ecf2449994f1eda13fa7a5fbab /include/linux/efi.h
parent3295814d83c55e629abc6c2a31af1d504febb229 (diff)
downloadlinux-4fc756bd9dbf6b84fbf751e3bf495277849c5db7.tar.xz
efivars: Expose efivars functionality to external drivers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index fb737bc19a8c..33fa1203024e 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -397,4 +397,41 @@ static inline void memrange_efi_to_native(u64 *addr, u64 *npages)
*addr &= PAGE_MASK;
}
+#if defined(CONFIG_EFI_VARS) || defined(CONFIG_EFI_VARS_MODULE)
+/*
+ * EFI Variable support.
+ *
+ * Different firmware drivers can expose their EFI-like variables using
+ * the following.
+ */
+
+struct efivar_operations {
+ efi_get_variable_t *get_variable;
+ efi_get_next_variable_t *get_next_variable;
+ efi_set_variable_t *set_variable;
+};
+
+struct efivars {
+ /*
+ * ->lock protects two things:
+ * 1) ->list - adds, removals, reads, writes
+ * 2) ops.[gs]et_variable() calls.
+ * It must not be held when creating sysfs entries or calling kmalloc.
+ * ops.get_next_variable() is only called from register_efivars(),
+ * which is protected by the BKL, so that path is safe.
+ */
+ spinlock_t lock;
+ struct list_head list;
+ struct kset *kset;
+ struct bin_attribute *new_var, *del_var;
+ const struct efivar_operations *ops;
+};
+
+int register_efivars(struct efivars *efivars,
+ const struct efivar_operations *ops,
+ struct kobject *parent_kobj);
+void unregister_efivars(struct efivars *efivars);
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_EFI_VARS */
+
#endif /* _LINUX_EFI_H */