On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 10:06 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 01:30:23AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > I don't see any adverse effects of the patch below on a couple of my test
> > boxes, but (a) they are Intel-based and (b) they are non-EFI, so it would be
> > good to give it a go on as many machines as reasonably possible.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rafael
> >
> > ---
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before efi_enter_virtual_mode()
> >
> > According to Matt Fleming, if acpi_early_init() was executed befpre
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode(), the EFI initialization could benefit from
> > it, so make that happen.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > init/main.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Index: linux-pm/init/main.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-pm.orig/init/main.c
> > +++ linux-pm/init/main.c
> > @@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
> > calibrate_delay();
> > pidmap_init();
> > anon_vma_init();
> > + acpi_early_init();
> > #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode();
> > @@ -641,7 +642,6 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
> >
> > check_bugs();
> >
> > - acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
> > sfi_init_late();
> >
> > if (efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES)) {
> >
>
> Looks good both on kvm+OVMF and on my Dell EFI box.
>
> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
>
> Toshi has a big EFI box though - if he could run it too, that would be
> great :-)
Yes, I will test the change.
Thanks,
-Toshi
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