Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:35:28 +0900 | From | Yasuaki Ishimatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: add no_bricked_efi whitelist |
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(2013/11/21 1:02), Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 17:34 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > >> When booting my system, remaining space of efi variable storage is about >> 5KB. So there is no room that sets a new variable to the storage. On my >> system, trigger of gc is when EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES occurs on pre OS >> environment with UEFI. So if EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES occurs by the 5Kbyte >> threshold, nvram storage cannot be used until EFI_OUT_OF_RESOURCES occurs >> on pre OS environment with UEFI. > > By "remaining space is about 5KB", do you mean that the rest of the > space is filled with variables or do you mean that there is more free > space but it hasn't been garbage collected? >
Remaining space is free space that can be used by efi variable. But by 5KB threshold, we cannot use the space while running OS.
Thanks, Yasuaki Ishimatsu
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