Re: [GIT PULL 0/2] EFI urgent fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 20 2016 - 10:58:20 EST



* Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks, please pull the following two fixes that address the boot hang
> issue Waiman reported here,
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/57DF56D4.50304@xxxxxxx
>
> The following changes since commit 3be7988674ab33565700a37b210f502563d932e6:
>
> Linux 4.8-rc7 (2016-09-18 17:27:41 -0700)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git tags/efi-urgent
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 1297667083d5442aafe3e337b9413bf02b114edb:
>
> x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode (2016-09-20 14:53:04 +0100)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> * Fix a boot hang on large memory machines (multiple terabyte) caused
> by type conversion errors in the x86 pat code - Matt Fleming
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Matt Fleming (2):
> x86/mm/pat: Prevent hang during boot when mapping pages
> x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode
>
> arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
> arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Pulled, thanks a lot Matt!

Ingo