This series looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com>
> From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
>
> The arm64 port permits the use of the baseline FP/SIMD register file in
> kernel mode, and no longer requires preemption to be disabled. Now that
> the EFI spec is being clarified to state that EFI runtime services may
> only use baseline FP/SIMD, the fact that EFI may code may use FP/SIMD
> registers (while executing at the same privilege level as the kernel) is
> no longer a reason to disable preemption when invoking them.
>
> This means that the only remaining reason for disabling preemption is
> the fact that the active mm is swapped out and replaced with efi_mm in a
> way that is hidden from the scheduler, and so scheduling is not
> supported currently. However, given that virtually all (*) EFI runtime
> calls are made from the efi_rts_wq workqueue, the efi_mm can simply be
> loaded into the workqueue worker kthread while the call is in progress,
> and this does not require preemption to be disabled.
>
> Note that this is only a partial solution in terms of RT guarantees,
> given that the runtime services execute at the same privilege level as
> the kernel, and can therefore disable interrupts (and therefore
> preemption) directly. But it should prevent scheduling latency spikes
> for EFI calls that simply take a long time to run to completion.
>
> Changes since v1/RFC:
> - Disable uaccess for SWPAN before updating the preserved TTBR0 value
> - Document why disabling migration is needed
> - Rebase onto v6.17-rc1
>
> (*) only efi_reset_system() and EFI pstore invoke EFI runtime services
> without going through the workqueue, and the latter only when saving
> a kernel oops log to the EFI varstore
>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>
> Ard Biesheuvel (7):
> efi: Add missing static initializer for efi_mm::cpus_allowed_lock
> efi/runtime: Return success/failure from arch_efi_call_virt_setup()
> efi/runtime: Deal with arch_efi_call_virt_setup() returning failure
> arm64/fpsimd: Don't warn when EFI execution context is preemptible
> arm64/efi: Use a semaphore to protect the EFI stack and FP/SIMD state
> arm64/efi: Move uaccess en/disable out of efi_set_pgd()
> arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption
>
> arch/arm/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +-
> arch/arm64/include/asm/efi.h | 15 ++----
> arch/arm64/kernel/efi.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++---
> arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 4 +-
> arch/loongarch/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +-
> arch/riscv/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/efi.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_32.c | 3 +-
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 3 +-
> arch/x86/platform/uv/bios_uv.c | 3 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 3 ++
> drivers/firmware/efi/riscv-runtime.c | 3 +-
> drivers/firmware/efi/runtime-wrappers.c | 20 ++++---
> include/linux/efi.h | 8 +--
> 14 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 8f5ae30d69d7543eee0d70083daf4de8fe15d585
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> 2.51.0.355.g5224444f11-goog
>
>
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Sincerely,
Yeoreum Yun