Nishanth Menon <nm@xxxxxx> writes: > Kevin Hilman had written, on 11/19/2010 02:55 PM, the following: > [...] >> Now, based on what you say below, it seems like there is no way to >> guarantee that SMIs don't do this, so I guess we have no choice but to >> protect them all. > In that way, I do like the patch from Santosh - with the relevant > changes we will need to incorporate. Do keep in mind that SMI is a > secure service - In theory, there could be(and to my knowledge, are) > custom secure services to do all kind of other things that are not > power management related[1] - All the more reason that this secure mode code should be moved out of the core idle path into its own driver. Kevin > The only area we can protect is the one in idle/ power paths. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
