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    efi: Allow to enable EFI runtime services by default on RT · a031651f
    Javier Martinez Canillas 提交于
    Commit d9f283ae ("efi: Disable runtime services on RT") disabled EFI
    runtime services by default when the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT option is enabled.
    
    The rationale for that commit is that some EFI calls could take too much
    time, leading to large latencies which is an issue for Real-Time kernels.
    
    But a side effect of that change was that now is not possible anymore to
    enable the EFI runtime services by default when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is set,
    without passing an efi=runtime command line parameter to the kernel.
    
    Instead, let's add a new EFI_DISABLE_RUNTIME boolean Kconfig option, that
    would be set to n by default but to y if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is enabled.
    
    That way, the current behaviour is preserved but gives users a mechanism
    to enable the EFI runtimes services in their kernels if that is required.
    For example, if the firmware could guarantee bounded time for EFI calls.
    
    Also, having a separate boolean config could allow users to disable the
    EFI runtime services by default even when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is not set.
    Reported-by: NAlexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
    Fixes: d9f283ae ("efi: Disable runtime services on RT")
    Signed-off-by: NJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220331151654.184433-1-javierm@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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