History log of /linux-master/drivers/acpi/pfr_update.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 74550b07 22-Feb-2024 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

ACPI: pfr_update: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.

To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
.remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


# de4eda9d 15-Sep-2022 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers

READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.

Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e335beed 17-Nov-2022 Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>

ACPI: pfr_update: use ACPI_FREE() to free acpi_object

acpi_evaluate_dsm_typed()/acpi_evaluate_dsm() should be coupled with
ACPI_FREE() to free the ACPI memory, because we need to track the
allocation of acpi_object when ACPI_DBG_TRACK_ALLOCATIONS enabled,
so use ACPI_FREE() instead of kfree().

Fixes: 0db89fa243e5 ("ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver")
Signed-off-by: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


# 31834aaa 06-Jan-2022 Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>

ACPI: pfr_update: Fix return value check in pfru_write()

In case of error, memremap() returns NULL pointer not
ERR_PTR(). The IS_ERR() test in the return value check
should be replaced with NULL test.

Fixes: 0db89fa243e5 ("ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


# 0db89fa2 21-Dec-2021 Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>

ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver

Introduce the pfr_update driver which can be used for Platform Firmware
Runtime code injection and driver update [1].

The user is expected to provide the EFI capsule, and pass it to the
driver by writing the capsule to a device special file. The capsule
is transferred by the driver to the platform firmware with the help
of an ACPI _DSM method under the special ACPI Platform Firmware
Runtime Update device (INTC1080), and the actual firmware update is
carried out by the low-level Management Mode code in the platform
firmware.

This change allows certain pieces of the platform firmware to be
updated on the fly while the system is running (runtime) without the
need to restart it, which is key in the cases when the system needs to
be available 100% of the time and it cannot afford the downtime related
to restarting it, or when the work carried out by the system is
particularly important, so it cannot be interrupted, and it is not
practical to wait until it is complete.

Link: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Intel_MM_OS_Interface_Spec_Rev100.pdf # [1]
Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>