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Commit ef68c8f8 authored by Jan Beulich's avatar Jan Beulich Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Serialize EFI time accesses on rtc_lock



The EFI specification requires that callers of the time related
runtime functions serialize with other CMOS accesses in the
kernel, as the EFI time functions may choose to also use the
legacy CMOS RTC.

Besides fixing a latent bug, this is a prerequisite to safely
enable the rtc-efi driver for x86, which ought to be preferred
over rtc-cmos on all EFI platforms.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMatthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: <mjg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4E257E33020000780004E319@nat28.tlf.novell.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
parent ac619f4e
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