Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] efi/runtime-wrappers: bound the wait for EFI runtime service calls
Yeoreum Yun <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:41:09 +0100
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-efi,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> Hello Yeoreum, > > On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 07:56:18AM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote: > > > > One of my concern is for the UpdateCapsule runtime service. > > It might have a case where takes more then 2 mins and there's one > > RFC to support a runtime capsule update for arm platform [1]. > > I'm not familiar with UpdateCapsule. Are you suggesting that a 2-minute > wait for an EFI call should be acceptable (?!) > > Wouldn't that trigger stalls and hung-task/wq warnings throughout the > kernel? Might for default config timeout for hung-task. However at least its timeout configurable. TBH, normally it wouldn't task more than 2 mins. But for a in case of *slow firmware*, would be good to make runtime-service timeout configurable at least? -- Sincerely, Yeoreum Yun