Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:58:06PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> the problem is : overlapping between kernel code with boot services code.

SHouldn't checking against the iomem resource map avoid that?

> now e820 table that is passed from bootloader do not include boot services code range. and also current boot/head_64.S will not
> try to find usable range for decompressed kernel ( too early )...
> 
> So solution will be:
> 1. revert Matthew Garrett's patch, because it breaking unknown good platform.

That's acceptable if we can't find a better solution.

> 2. ask vendor of system that Matthew try to fix to go back fix their firmware. otherwise user have stay with CSM with it.

This isn't an option.

The medium-term fix is to ensure that the bootloaders don't put the 
kernel on top of boot services code. The long-term fix is to perform the 
SetVirtualAddressMap transition in either the bootloader or the kernel 
entry point. But the short-term fix here is to allocate all boot 
services regions that don't overlap with the kernel. That'll fix some 
number of machines and shouldn't break any existing ones.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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