Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Exclude 'top_pgtable' from relocation

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Jun 21 2018 - 11:27:33 EST


On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 03:18:05PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 3 May 2018, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
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> > > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:38:49AM +0000, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > > The patch is bogus and I still don't understand what is going on.
> > >
> > > I think I found the issue. Could you check the patch below:
> >
> > Sorry, no good on either machine, immediate reboot as before.
> > I'm gathering the info you asked, will send privately in an hour or so.
>
> Hi, any update on this bug?
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> Kirill: mind (re-)sending a series of any resulting patches that you have pending?
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> If there's no fix, is there any list of SHA1's to revert?

The root cause of the bug was fixed in v4.17 by

5c9b0b1c4988 ("x86/boot/compressed/64: Set up GOT for paging_prepare() and cleanup_trampoline()").

The only pending patch I have at the moment is

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612103657.18041-1-kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Do you want me to resend it again?

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Kirill A. Shutemov