Honey, I shrunk the EFI stub
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| 1/2 | efi: Deduplicate efi_file_size() / _read() / _close()arch/ drivers/ drivers/ +1 more | +63 | 0 replies | |
| 2/2 | x86/efi: Deduplicate efi_char16_printk()arch/ include/ | +6 | 0 replies |
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Cover letter [PATCH 0/2] Honey, I shrunk the EFI stub
Demonstrate the code reduction attainable by efi_call_proto() which was proffered in a patch I've posted a few minutes ago.
For this to work, all three protocol variants (_32_t and _64_t for x86 and _t for ARM) need to be declared as typedefs. The declaration and naming of protocols in include/linux/efi.h currently isn't consistent, some are declared as typedefs and some aren't, some use a "_t" suffix and some don't. These inconsistencies need to be straightened out when converting to efi_call_proto(). It should be noted that checkpatch complains about newly introduced typedefs. It would be possible to retool efi_call_proto() to work without typedef declarations as long as it's done consistently.
In __file_size32() all protocol calls are currently cast to unsigned long, which is 64 bit when compiled on x86_64. Matt has said that the register needs to be loaded with a 32 bit address, so it looks to me like this is currently broken for mixed-mode. Patch [1/2] should fix this. E.g.:
efi_file_handle_32_t *h, *fh = __fh; [...] status = efi_early->call((unsigned long)h->get_info, h, &info_guid, &info_sz, NULL);
Another oddity is that info_sz is declared u32 in __file_size32(), yet the spec says that the third argument to EFI_FILE_PROTOCOL.GetInfo() is of type UINTN, which I assume is 64 bit regardless of mixed-mode, or am I missing something? Patch [1/2] uses an unsigned long instead.
Thanks,
Lukas
Lukas Wunner (2):
efi: Deduplicate efi_file_size() / _read() / _close() x86/efi: Deduplicate efi_char16_printk()
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 174 +------------------------ drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm-stub.c | 69 ---------- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 63 +++++++++ drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efistub.h | 8 -- include/linux/efi.h | 8 +- 5 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)
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