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efi: Use a work queue to invoke EFI Runtime Services
Presently, when a user process requests the kernel to execute any UEFI runtime service, the kernel temporarily switches to a separate set of page tables that describe the virtual mapping of the UEFI runtime services regions in memory. Since UEFI runtime services are typically invoked with interrupts enabled, any code that may be called during this time, will have an incorrect view of the process's address space. Although it is unusual for code running in interrupt context to make assumptions about the process context it runs in, there are cases (such as the perf subsystem taking samples) where this causes problems. So let's set up a work queue for calling UEFI runtime services, so that the actual calls are made when the work queue items are dispatched by a work queue worker running in a separate kernel thread. Such threads are not expected to have userland mappings in the first place, and so the additional mappings created for the UEFI runtime services can never clash with any. The ResetSystem() runtime service is not covered by the work queue handling, since it is not expected to return, and may be called at a time when the kernel is torn down to the point where we cannot expect work queues to still be operational. The non-blocking variants of SetVariable() and QueryVariableInfo() are also excluded: these are intended to be used from atomic context, which obviously rules out waiting for a completion to be signalled by another thread. Note that these variants are currently only used for UEFI runtime services calls that occur very early in the boot, and for ones that occur in critical conditions, e.g., to flush kernel logs to UEFI variables via efi-pstore. Suggested-by:Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: