Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] efi: Move grub_reboot() into kernel

[Daniel Kiper]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:26:47PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> The reboot function calls machine_fini() and then reboots the system.
> Currently it lives in lib/ which means it gets compiled into the
> reboot module which lives on the heap.
>
> In a following patch, I want to free the heap on machine_fini()
> though, so we would free the memory that the code is running in. That
> obviously breaks with smarter UEFI implementations.
>
> So this patch moves it into the core. That way we ensure that all
> code running after machine_fini() in the UEFI case is running from
> memory that got allocated (and gets deallocated) by the UEFI core.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <address@hidden>

Daniel