Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi/libstub: drop __pure getter for efi_system_table

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 21:07, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:48:30PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > The practice of using __pure getter functions to access global
> > variables in the EFI stub dates back to the time when we had to
> > carefully prevent GOT entries from being emitted, because we
> > could not rely on the toolchain to do this for us.
> >
> > Today, we use the hidden visibility pragma for all EFI stub source
> > files, which now all live in the same subdirectory, and we apply a
> > sanity check on the objects, so we can get rid of these getter
> > functions and simply refer to global data objects directly.
> >
> > Start with efi_system_table(), and convert it into a global variable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Could turn efi_is_64bit() into an inline function as well?

Yep



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