Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove EFI memmap quirk for UV

From: Matt Fleming
Date: Tue Nov 17 2015 - 04:52:22 EST


On Mon, 16 Nov, at 07:02:48PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Alex Thorlton wrote:
>
> CC'ing Matt under his correct e-mail address.
>
> > Commit a5d90c923bcf ("x86/efi: Quirk out SGI UV") added a quirk to
> > efi_apply_memmap_quirks to force SGI UV systems to fall back to the old
> > EFI memmap mechanism. We have a BIOS fix for this issue now, so we no
> > longer need this quirk in the kernel. This commit removes the quirk
> > from the function in question.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Hedi Berriche <hedi@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > ---
> > arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c | 6 ------
> > 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > index 1c7380d..96b417c 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/quirks.c
> > @@ -259,12 +259,6 @@ void __init efi_apply_memmap_quirks(void)
> > pr_info("efi: Setup done, disabling due to 32/64-bit mismatch\n");
> > efi_unmap_memmap();
> > }
> > -
> > - /*
> > - * UV doesn't support the new EFI pagetable mapping yet.
> > - */
> > - if (is_uv_system())
> > - set_bit(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP, &efi.flags);

Awesome! Thanks Alex.

Can I also close https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75021 ?
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