Re: [tip:x86/efi] x86/efi-bgrt: Fix kernel panic when mapping BGRT data

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On Sat, 19 Dec, at 03:45:51PM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:28:41PM -0800, tip-bot for Sai Praneeth wrote:
> > As said above one way to fix this bug is to shift %cr3 to efi_pgd but we
> > are not doing that way because it leaks inner details of how we switch
> > to EFI page tables into a new call site and it also adds duplicate code.
> > Instead, we remove the call to efi_lookup_mapped_addr() and always
> > perform early_mem*() instead of early_io*() because we want to remap RAM
> > regions and not I/O regions. We also delete efi_lookup_mapped_addr()
> > because we are no longer using it.
> 
> Did the follow-up fix commit from the thread "BGRT doesn't work for me
> on efi-next", fixing the WARN reported by Môshe van der Sterre, get
> pulled in?  Because this commit still uses early_memremap, not memremap.

No it didn't. I'm going to send it to tip in a minute.
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