x86/efi: Delete misleading efi_printk() error message
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:04:25 +0000 (09:04 +0100)
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:46:59 +0000 (12:46 +0100)
A number of people are reporting seeing the "setup_efi_pci() failed!"
error message in what used to be a quiet boot,

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81891

The message isn't all that helpful because setup_efi_pci() can return a
non-success error code for a variety of reasons, not all of them fatal.

Let's drop the return code from setup_efi_pci*() altogether, since
there's no way to process it in any meaningful way outside of the inner
__setup_efi_pci*() functions.

Reported-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Ulf Winkelvos <ulf@winkelvos.de>
Cc: Andre Müller <andre.muller@web.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c

index b04f1e0e3fabd86bf55ea45d0a3ad175a3aa8414..dc30c1732057832bab45f52191310a8051942f56 100644 (file)
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ free_struct:
        return status;
 }
 
-static efi_status_t
+static void
 setup_efi_pci32(struct boot_params *params, void **pci_handle,
                unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -408,8 +408,6 @@ setup_efi_pci32(struct boot_params *params, void **pci_handle,
                data = (struct setup_data *)rom;
 
        }
-
-       return status;
 }
 
 static efi_status_t
@@ -468,7 +466,7 @@ free_struct:
 
 }
 
-static efi_status_t
+static void
 setup_efi_pci64(struct boot_params *params, void **pci_handle,
                unsigned long size)
 {
@@ -511,11 +509,18 @@ setup_efi_pci64(struct boot_params *params, void **pci_handle,
                data = (struct setup_data *)rom;
 
        }
-
-       return status;
 }
 
-static efi_status_t setup_efi_pci(struct boot_params *params)
+/*
+ * There's no way to return an informative status from this function,
+ * because any analysis (and printing of error messages) needs to be
+ * done directly at the EFI function call-site.
+ *
+ * For example, EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER could indicate a bug or maybe we
+ * just didn't find any PCI devices, but there's no way to tell outside
+ * the context of the call.
+ */
+static void setup_efi_pci(struct boot_params *params)
 {
        efi_status_t status;
        void **pci_handle = NULL;
@@ -532,7 +537,7 @@ static efi_status_t setup_efi_pci(struct boot_params *params)
                                        size, (void **)&pci_handle);
 
                if (status != EFI_SUCCESS)
-                       return status;
+                       return;
 
                status = efi_call_early(locate_handle,
                                        EFI_LOCATE_BY_PROTOCOL, &pci_proto,
@@ -543,13 +548,12 @@ static efi_status_t setup_efi_pci(struct boot_params *params)
                goto free_handle;
 
        if (efi_early->is64)
-               status = setup_efi_pci64(params, pci_handle, size);
+               setup_efi_pci64(params, pci_handle, size);
        else
-               status = setup_efi_pci32(params, pci_handle, size);
+               setup_efi_pci32(params, pci_handle, size);
 
 free_handle:
        efi_call_early(free_pool, pci_handle);
-       return status;
 }
 
 static void
@@ -1385,10 +1389,7 @@ struct boot_params *efi_main(struct efi_config *c,
 
        setup_graphics(boot_params);
 
-       status = setup_efi_pci(boot_params);
-       if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) {
-               efi_printk(sys_table, "setup_efi_pci() failed!\n");
-       }
+       setup_efi_pci(boot_params);
 
        status = efi_call_early(allocate_pool, EFI_LOADER_DATA,
                                sizeof(*gdt), (void **)&gdt);