On Mon, 15 May, at 08:35:17PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote: > > > + paddr = boot_params.efi_info.efi_memmap_hi; > > + paddr <<= 32; > > + paddr |= boot_params.efi_info.efi_memmap; > > + if (phys_addr == paddr) > > + return true; > > + > > + paddr = boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab_hi; > > + paddr <<= 32; > > + paddr |= boot_params.efi_info.efi_systab; > > So those two above look like could be two global vars which are > initialized somewhere in the EFI init path: > > efi_memmap_phys and efi_systab_phys or so. > > Matt ? > > And then you won't need to create that paddr each time on the fly. I > mean, it's not a lot of instructions but still... We should already have the physical memmap address available in 'efi.memmap.phys_map'. And the physical address of the system table should be in 'efi_phys.systab'. See efi_init().