On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 06:48:33PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Now that we are calling SetVirtualAddressMap() from the stub, there is no
> need to reserve boot-only memory regions, which implies that there is also
> no reason to free them again later.
>
> Acked-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 123 +-----------------------------------------------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 122 deletions(-)
[...]
> -static void __init free_boot_services(void)
> -{
> - u64 total_freed = 0;
> - u64 keep_end, free_start, free_end;
> - efi_memory_desc_t *md;
> -
> - /*
> - * If kernel uses larger pages than UEFI, we have to be careful
> - * not to inadvertantly free memory we want to keep if there is
> - * overlap at the kernel page size alignment. We do not want to
> - * free is_reserve_region() memory nor the UEFI memmap itself.
> - *
> - * The memory map is sorted, so we keep track of the end of
> - * any previous region we want to keep, remember any region
> - * we want to free and defer freeing it until we encounter
> - * the next region we want to keep. This way, before freeing
> - * it, we can clip it as needed to avoid freeing memory we
> - * want to keep for UEFI.
> - */
> -
> - keep_end = 0;
> - free_start = 0;
> -
> - for_each_efi_memory_desc(&memmap, md) {
> - u64 paddr, npages, size;
I'm glad to see the back of this function, thanks.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Will
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