Re: [patch] x86/efi: use GFP_ATOMIC under spin_lock

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On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 06:50:28PM +0000, Matt Fleming wrote:

> Is there any value in that? Do machines exist where we absolutely must
> have access to the EFI time services? Either because there's no other
> method or no other working one?

In theory we get timezones, which we otherwise only get if we have an 
ACPI TAD device.

> I can check again, but I'm pretty sure this ASUS machine under my desk
> always returns a vendor-specific error code when invoked, even with
> Borislav's 1:1 patches. Enabling EFI services just because they exist
> hasn't worked out well for us in the past.

Returning an error doesn't seem like a problem, as long as it's not 
actually killing the machine in the process...

> And of course, the GPF_KERNEL alloc under spinlock bug that started this
> thread needs to be fixed.

Losing phys_efi_get_time() doesn't seem like it ought to be much of a 
problem.

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