Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755111Ab1FFQLs (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:11:48 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.27]:1595 "EHLO smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752785Ab1FFQLp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:11:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4DECFC1C.10801@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:11:08 +0200 From: Jim Bos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maarten Lankhorst CC: Matthew Garrett , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg KH , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system References: <4CE17098.8090000@xs4all.nl> <4CE17C4B.1070305@xs4all.nl> <20101115185848.GI2583@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <20101115191248.GY29412@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> <20101115195115.GZ29412@tyan-ft48-01.lab.bos.redhat.com> <4CE1968D.3050706@xs4all.nl> <4DE8DC16.6030308@xs4all.nl> <20110603133351.GA25130@srcf.ucam.org> <4DE8EF13.9030609@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2224 Lines: 57 On 06/06/2011 05:27 PM, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: > Hi Jim, > > 2011/6/3 Jim Bos : >> On 06/03/2011 03:33 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Jim Bos wrote: >>>> >>>> *, >>>> >>>> Just applied 2.6.39.1 but my system: 64-bit SLackware, 8GB RAM, MSI mobo >>>> P67A-C45 bios V1.9. previously happily booting via EFI (nice to see >>>> Linux and the other OS actually NOT overwriting each others boot >>>> loaders!) immediately re-booted just after loading the kernel. >>>> >>>> Not even a single message is making it on the console, almost immediate >>>> system reset. As I noticed there are several EFI related patches, I >>>> first tried to backout the change to setup.c but that didn't help so >>>> backing out all the efi changes in the 2.6.39.1 patch, i.e. the files: >>>> - arch/x86/kernel/setup.c >>>> - arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c >>>> - arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c >>>> and sure enough system is booting on 2.6.39.1 with these changes removed. >>> >>> Can you try just reverting >>> >>> "x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode" >>> >>> ? You've got 143 boot services/code regions, which is more than I'd >>> tested against, so I'm unsure whether we're overflowing something here. >>> >> >> That's seems to be the only EFI patch in 2.6.39.1 and I effectively >> removed by =not= applying (skipping) the parts of the 2.6.39.1 patch to >> above 3 files. >> So yes removing "x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after >> switching to virtual mode" indeed fixes the problem for me. > Does manually applying commit 9cd2b07c1 fix things for 2.6.39.1? > commit is: x86, efi: Consolidate EFI nx control > > There will be 1 apply failure, need to change the call to > early_mapping_set_exec in early_runtime_code_mapping_set_exec to > efi_set_executable. > > ~Maarten > Maarten, Yes that boots, but with the "BUG Bad page state .." as well (so would need you other patch). Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/