Add Dave to the CC list, he may have concerns about the code change.
On 09/07/17 at 03:42pm, Baoquan He wrote:
> The BIOS on SGI UV system will report a UV system table which describes
> specific firmware capabilities available to the Linux kernel at runtime.
> This UV system table only exists on SGI UV system. And it's detected
> in efi_init() which is at very early stage.
>
> So introduce a new helper function is_early_uv_system() to identify if
> a system is UV system. Later we will use it to check if the running
> system is UV system in mm KASLR code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Mike Travis <tra...@sgi.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
> index b5a32231abd8..93d7ad8763ba 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/uv/uv.h
> @@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ extern void uv_nmi_init(void);
> extern void uv_system_init(void);
> extern const struct cpumask *uv_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask
> *cpumask,
> const struct flush_tlb_info
> *info);
> +#include <linux/efi.h>
> +static inline int is_early_uv_system(void)
> +{
> + return !((efi.uv_systab == EFI_INVALID_TABLE_ADDR) || !efi.uv_systab);
> +}
>
> #else /* X86_UV */
>
> @@ -30,6 +35,7 @@ static inline const struct cpumask *
> uv_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
> const struct flush_tlb_info *info)
> { return cpumask; }
> +static inline int is_early_uv_system(void) { return 0; }
>
> #endif /* X86_UV */
>
> --
> 2.5.5
>
