From patchwork Wed Jul 17 22:47:51 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 259841 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82A92C00AB for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:56:04 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UzadZ-0008VO-Sd; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:55:57 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UzaaY-0007Un-V3 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:52:50 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-231-162.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.231.162] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzaWi-0008G3-Bp; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 22:48:52 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UzaWg-0002W3-3G; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:48:50 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 139/145] x86, efi: Implement efi_no_storage_paranoia parameter Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 15:47:51 -0700 Message-Id: <1374101277-7915-140-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1374101277-7915-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1374101277-7915-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Richard Weinberger , Kamal Mostafa , Matt Fleming X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.8.13.5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Richard Weinberger commit 8c58bf3eec3b8fc8162fe557e9361891c20758f2 upstream. Using this parameter one can disable the storage_size/2 check if he is really sure that the UEFI does sane gc and fulfills the spec. This parameter is useful if a devices uses more than 50% of the storage by default. The Intel DQSW67 desktop board is such a sucker for exmaple. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming [ kamal: backport to 3.8 as prereq for "Modify UEFI anti-bricking code" (replaced param functionality gets implemented by that commit) ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 ++++++ arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 9 +++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 986614d..0b92543 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -785,6 +785,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. edd= [EDD] Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} + efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] + Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of + your efi variable storage. Use this parameter only if + you are really sure that your UEFI does sane gc and + fulfills the spec otherwise your board may brick. + eisa_irq_edge= [PARISC,HW] See header of drivers/parisc/eisa.c. diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c index 27ff3b0..55452cd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c @@ -98,6 +98,15 @@ static int __init setup_add_efi_memmap(char *arg) } early_param("add_efi_memmap", setup_add_efi_memmap); +static bool efi_no_storage_paranoia; + +static int __init setup_storage_paranoia(char *arg) +{ + efi_no_storage_paranoia = true; + return 0; +} +early_param("efi_no_storage_paranoia", setup_storage_paranoia); + static efi_status_t virt_efi_get_time(efi_time_t *tm, efi_time_cap_t *tc) {