[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From f6c2e46d68cd69266ae5f763f4a5c8c3c823104c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:35:21 +0100
Subject: efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI

commit 0c5ed61adbdbf2ca5de934642d5be1e971c498c1 upstream.

Not only can EfiResetSystem() be used to reboot, it can also be used to
power down machines.

By and large, this functionality doesn't work very well across the range
of EFI machines in the wild, so it should definitely only be used as a
last resort. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be needed at all.

Unfortunately, we're starting to see machines where EFI is the *only*
reliable way to power down, and nothing else, not PCI, not ACPI, works.

efi_poweroff_required() should be implemented on a per-architecture
basis, since exactly when we should be using EFI runtime services is a
platform-specific decision. There's no analogue for reboot because each
architecture handles reboot very differently - the x86 code in
particular is pretty complex.

Patches to enable this for specific classes of hardware will be
submitted separately.

Tested-by: Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming at intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/efi.h           |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c
index 81bf925f70f5..e9eeeb3c6345 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/reboot.c
@@ -24,3 +24,25 @@ void efi_reboot(enum reboot_mode reboot_mode, const char *__unused)

 	efi.reset_system(efi_mode, EFI_SUCCESS, 0, NULL);
 }
+
+bool __weak efi_poweroff_required(void)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+static void efi_power_off(void)
+{
+	efi.reset_system(EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN, EFI_SUCCESS, 0, NULL);
+}
+
+static int __init efi_shutdown_init(void)
+{
+	if (!efi_enabled(EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES))
+		return -ENODEV;
+
+	if (efi_poweroff_required())
+		pm_power_off = efi_power_off;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+late_initcall(efi_shutdown_init);
diff --git a/include/linux/efi.h b/include/linux/efi.h
index 0958d4bb399f..2539aff31808 100644
--- a/include/linux/efi.h
+++ b/include/linux/efi.h
@@ -876,6 +876,8 @@ extern void efi_reserve_boot_services(void);
 extern int efi_get_fdt_params(struct efi_fdt_params *params, int verbose);
 extern struct efi_memory_map memmap;

+extern bool efi_poweroff_required(void);
+
 /* Iterate through an efi_memory_map */
 #define for_each_efi_memory_desc(m, md)					   \
 	for ((md) = (m)->map;						   \