Ingo Molnar 5465fe0fc3 * Refactor the EFI memory map code into architecture neutral files
and allow drivers to permanently reserve EFI boot services regions
    on x86, as well as ARM/arm64 - Matt Fleming
 
  * Add ARM support for the EFI esrt driver - Ard Biesheuvel
 
  * Make the EFI runtime services and efivar API interruptible by
    swapping spinlocks for semaphores - Sylvain Chouleur
 
  * Provide the EFI identity mapping for kexec which allows kexec to
    work on SGI/UV platforms with requiring the "noefi" kernel command
    line parameter - Alex Thorlton
 
  * Add debugfs node to dump EFI page tables on arm64 - Ard Biesheuvel
 
  * Merge the EFI test driver being carried out of tree until now in
    the FWTS project - Ivan Hu
 
  * Expand the list of flags for classifying EFI regions as "RAM" on
    arm64 so we align with the UEFI spec - Ard Biesheuvel
 
  * Optimise out the EFI mixed mode if it's unsupported (CONFIG_X86_32)
    or disabled (CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=n) and switch the early EFI boot
    services function table for direct calls, alleviating us from
    having to maintain the custom function table - Lukas Wunner
 
  * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
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Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into efi/core

Pull EFI updates from Matt Fleming:

"* Refactor the EFI memory map code into architecture neutral files
   and allow drivers to permanently reserve EFI boot services regions
   on x86, as well as ARM/arm64 - Matt Fleming

 * Add ARM support for the EFI esrt driver - Ard Biesheuvel

 * Make the EFI runtime services and efivar API interruptible by
   swapping spinlocks for semaphores - Sylvain Chouleur

 * Provide the EFI identity mapping for kexec which allows kexec to
   work on SGI/UV platforms with requiring the "noefi" kernel command
   line parameter - Alex Thorlton

 * Add debugfs node to dump EFI page tables on arm64 - Ard Biesheuvel

 * Merge the EFI test driver being carried out of tree until now in
   the FWTS project - Ivan Hu

 * Expand the list of flags for classifying EFI regions as "RAM" on
   arm64 so we align with the UEFI spec - Ard Biesheuvel

 * Optimise out the EFI mixed mode if it's unsupported (CONFIG_X86_32)
   or disabled (CONFIG_EFI_MIXED=n) and switch the early EFI boot
   services function table for direct calls, alleviating us from
   having to maintain the custom function table - Lukas Wunner

 * Miscellaneous cleanups and fixes"

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-09-13 20:21:55 +02:00
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