efi/libstub: Buffer output of efi_puts

Use a buffer to convert the string to UTF-16. This will reduce the
number of firmware calls required to print the string from one per
character to one per string in most cases.

Cast the input char to unsigned char before converting to efi_char16_t
to avoid sign-extension in case there are any non-ASCII characters in
the input.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>

Author: nivedita76

drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/efi.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <asm/efi.h>
 
 #include "efistub.h"
@@ -34,13 +35,19 @@ void efi_char16_puts(efi_char16_t *str)
 
 void efi_puts(const char *str)
 {
-	while (*str) {
-		efi_char16_t ch[] = { *str++, L'\0' };
+	efi_char16_t buf[128];
+	size_t pos = 0, lim = ARRAY_SIZE(buf);
 
-		if (ch[0] == L'\n')
-			efi_char16_puts(L"\r\n");
-		else
-			efi_char16_puts(ch);
+	while (*str) {
+		if (*str == '\n')
+			buf[pos++] = L'\r';
+		/* Cast to unsigned char to avoid sign-extension */
+		buf[pos++] = (unsigned char)(*str++);
+		if (*str == '\0' || pos >= lim - 2) {
+			buf[pos] = L'\0';
+			efi_char16_puts(buf);
+			pos = 0;
+		}
 	}
 }