Re: [PATCH 1/4] efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE initialization common across all architectures

From	Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/4] efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE initialization common across all architectures
Date	2016-12-07 14:30 +0100
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On Tue, 06 Dec, at 11:16:00AM, Sai Praneeth Prakhya wrote:
> From: Sai Praneeth <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> 
> Since EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE and EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE deal with
> updating memory region attributes, it makes sense to call
> EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE initialization function from the same place
> as EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE. This also moves the EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE
> initialization code to a more generic efi initialization path rather
> than ARM specific efi initialization. This is important because
> EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE will be supported by x86 as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
> Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@intel.com>
> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
> Cc: Ravi Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/arm-init.c | 1 -
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c      | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

You should have applied Joey's Reviewed-by tag when sending out this
version so that it doesn't get lost.

It's not a big deal, just something to watch out for with future
submissions.

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[PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 20:20 +0100
  [PATCH 2/4] efi: Introduce EFI_MEM_ATTR bit and set it from memory attributes table Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
  [PATCH 1/4] efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE initialization common across all architectures Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/4] efi: Make EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE initialization  common across all architectures Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 14:30 +0100
  [PATCH 3/4] x86/efi: Add support for EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-06 20:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 20:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> - 2016-12-07 21:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 0/4] UEFI: EFI_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE support for x86 Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com> - 2016-12-07 21:20 +0100

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