On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:41:11PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote: > This (tiny) series resolves a fairly serious problem with > early_ioremap/iounmap/memremap/memunmap on arm64. These functions > cannot safely be called after paging_init(), but the sanity check > was not triggering. > > As a result, a fixmap entry was incorrectly cleared during > early_initcalls on arm64 UEFI systems. > > 1/2 reworks the arm64 UEFI support code to not attempt these calls > and > 2/2 enables the sanity check > > Changes since v1: > - Rebased to v3.19-rc3 > - Added 'Fixes:' tags > - Reworked 1/2 to restore call to efi_setup_idmap() to the original > location in the boot process. Looks reasonable to me; do they need a CC stable, or is this not a problem that matters in practice? Will -- 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
