Re: [PATCH] x86: fix Intel Mac booting with EFI

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Fedora reports that mem_init()'s zap_low_mappings(), extended to SMP 
> > in 61165d7a035f6571c7576e7f51e7230157724c8d x86: fix app crashes after 
> > SMP resume causes 32-bit Intel Mac machines to reboot very early when 
> > booting with EFI.
> > 
> > The EFI code appears to manage low mappings for itself when needed; 
> > but like many before it, confuses PSE with PAE.  So it has only been 
> > mapping half the space it needed when PSE but not PAE.  This remained 
> > unnoticed until we moved the SMP zap_low_mappings() before 
> > efi_enter_virtual_mode().  Presumably could have been noticed years 
> > ago if anyone ran a UP kernel on such machines?
> 
> good spotting!
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

and also applied to x86/urgent.

	Ingo
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