x86/xen/efi: Initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen
The current approach, which is the wholesale efi struct initialization from a 'efi_xen' local template is not robust. Usually if new member is defined then it is properly initialized in drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c, but not in arch/x86/xen/efi.c. The effect is that the Xen initialization clears any fields the generic code might have set and the Xen code does not know about yet. I saw this happen a few times, so let's initialize only the EFI struct members used by Xen and maintain no local duplicate, to avoid such issues in the future. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Cc: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1498128697-12943-3-git-send-email-daniel.kiper@oracle.com [ Clarified the changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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