Re: [PATCH]x86 efi: do not export efi runtime map in case old map

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:20:10AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> For ioremapped efi memory aka old_map the virt addresses are not persistant
> across kexec reboot. kexec-tools will read the runtime maps from sysfs then
> pass them to 2nd kernel and assuming kexec efi boot is ok. This will cause
> kexec boot failure.
> 
> To address this issue do not export runtime maps in case efi old_map so
> userspace can use no efi boot instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>

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