noefi kernel param means actually disabling efi runtime, Per suggestion from Leif Lindholm efi=noruntime should be better. But since noefi is already used in X86 thus just adding another param efi=noruntime for same purpose. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 ++- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 4 ++-- drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 31c50c1..7afbf6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -981,13 +981,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map", "nochunk" } + Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime" } old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI runtime services mapping. 32-bit still uses this one by default. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some firmware implementations. + noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c index c73a7df5..00f4cc5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -930,11 +930,11 @@ u64 efi_mem_attributes(unsigned long phys_addr) return 0; } -static int __init parse_efi_cmdline(char *str) +static int __init arch_parse_efi_cmdline(char *str) { if (parse_option_str(str, "old_map")) set_bit(EFI_OLD_MEMMAP, &efi.flags); return 0; } -early_param("efi", parse_efi_cmdline); +early_param("efi", arch_parse_efi_cmdline); diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c index 1f396eb..49eb18b 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c @@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ bool efi_runtime_disabled(void) return disable_runtime; } +static int __init parse_efi_cmdline(char *str) +{ + if (parse_option_str(str, "noruntime")) + disable_runtime = true; + + return 0; +} +early_param("efi", parse_efi_cmdline); + static struct kobject *efi_kobj; static struct kobject *efivars_kobj; -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html