Re: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Early parse RSDP and save it in boot_params

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 03:01:11AM -0800, tip-bot for Chao Fan wrote:
> Commit-ID:  3a63f70bf4c3a17f5d9c9bf3bc3288a23bdfefce
> Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/3a63f70bf4c3a17f5d9c9bf3bc3288a23bdfefce
> Author:     Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:08:48 +0800
> Committer:  Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 11:52:55 +0100
> 
> x86/boot: Early parse RSDP and save it in boot_params
> 
> The RSDP is needed by KASLR so parse it early and save it in
> boot_params.acpi_rsdp_addr, before KASLR setup runs.
> 
> RSDP is needed by other kernel facilities so have the parsing code
> built-in instead of a long "depends on" line in Kconfig.
> 
>  [ bp:
>     - Trim commit message and comments
>     - Add CONFIG_ACPI dependency in the Makefile
>     - Move ->acpi_rsdp_addr assignment with the rest of boot_params massaging in extract_kernel().
>  ]
> 

This patch causes x86_64 boots with efi32 bios to crash early and hard
(before any console output is seen).

Sample qemu command line:

qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel arch/x86/boot/bzImage -M q35 -cpu SandyBridge \
	-no-reboot -snapshot -smp 4 \
	-bios OVMF-pure-efi-32.fd \
	-m 1G \
	-usb -device usb-storage,drive=d0 \
	-drive file=rootfs.squashfs,if=none,id=d0,format=raw \
	--append 'earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8 root=/dev/sda rootwait panic=-1 console=ttyS0' \
	-nographic

This is with qemu 3.1, though details other than "-bios OVMF-pure-efi-32.fd"
don't really matter.

Files used above are available from https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/.

The patch can not be reverted alone, but

Revert "x86/boot/KASLR: Limit KASLR to extract the kernel in immovable memory only"
Revert "x86/boot: Parse SRAT table and count immovable memory regions"
Revert "x86/boot: Early parse RSDP and save it in boot_params"

fixes the problem.

Bisect log attached below.

Guenter

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