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Commit e5f930fe authored by Ard Biesheuvel's avatar Ard Biesheuvel Committed by Ingo Molnar
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efi/x86: Simplify 64-bit EFI firmware call wrapper



The efi_call() wrapper used to invoke EFI runtime services serves
a number of purposes:
- realign the stack to 16 bytes
- preserve FP and CR0 register state
- translate from SysV to MS calling convention.

Preserving CR0.TS is no longer necessary in Linux, and preserving the
FP register state is also redundant in most cases, since efi_call() is
almost always used from within the scope of a pair of kernel_fpu_begin()/
kernel_fpu_end() calls, with the exception of the early call to
SetVirtualAddressMap() and the SGI UV support code.

So let's add a pair of kernel_fpu_begin()/_end() calls there as well,
and remove the unnecessary code from the assembly implementation of
efi_call(), and only keep the pieces that deal with the stack
alignment and the ABI translation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103113953.9571-10-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent a46d6740
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