On Thu, 26 Jun, at 04:23:36PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> In order to move from the #include "../../../xxxxx.c" anti-pattern used by
> both the x86 and arm64 versions of the stub to a static library linked into
> either the kernel proper (arm64) or a separate boot executable (x86), there
> is some prepatory work required.
>
> This patch does the following:
> - move forward declarations of functions shared between the arch specific and
> the generic parts of the stub to include/linux/efi.h
> - move forward declarations of functions shared between various .c files of the
> generic stub code to a new local header file called "efistub.h"
> - add #includes to all .c files which were formerly relying on the #includor to
> include the correct header files
> - remove all static modifiers from functions which will need to be externally
> visible once we move to a static library
>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
> diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
> index 0ceb816bdfc2..3a64f2f85821 100644
> --- a/include/linux/efi.h
> +++ b/include/linux/efi.h
> @@ -1163,4 +1163,46 @@ static inline void
> efi_runtime_map_setup(void *map, int nr_entries, u32 desc_size) {}
> #endif
>
> +/* prototypes shared between arch specific and generic stub code */
> +
> +#define pr_efi(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: "msg)
> +#define pr_efi_err(sys_table, msg) efi_printk(sys_table, "EFI stub: ERROR: "msg)
> +
> +void efi_printk(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, char *str);
> +
> +void efi_free(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg, unsigned long size,
> + unsigned long addr);
> +
> +char *efi_convert_cmdline(efi_system_table_t *sys_table_arg,
> + efi_loaded_image_t *image, int *cmd_line_len);
> +
We've been very good so far at not splattering include/linux/efi.h with
any of the EFI boot stub prototypes, and it would be awesome if we
didn't have to start now.
Is there any way we could avoid doing this? Arguably everything should
be in the new efistub.h, no?
--
Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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