Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Jim Bos <jim876@xs4all.nl>]

On 06/03/2011 03:33 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Jim Bos wrote:
>>
>> *,
>>
>> Just applied 2.6.39.1 but my system: 64-bit SLackware, 8GB RAM, MSI mobo
>> P67A-C45 bios V1.9. previously happily booting via EFI (nice to see
>> Linux and the other OS actually NOT overwriting each others boot
>> loaders!) immediately re-booted just after loading the kernel.
>>
>> Not even a single message is making it on the console, almost immediate
>> system reset.  As I noticed there are several EFI related patches, I
>> first tried to backout the change to setup.c but that didn't help so
>> backing out all the efi changes in the 2.6.39.1 patch, i.e. the files:
>>  - arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
>>  - arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
>>  - arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c
>> and sure enough system is booting on 2.6.39.1 with these changes removed.
> 
> Can you try just reverting
> 
> "x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after switching to virtual mode"
> 
> ? You've got 143 boot services/code regions, which is more than I'd 
> tested against, so I'm unsure whether we're overflowing something here.
> 

That's seems to be the only EFI patch in 2.6.39.1 and I effectively
removed by =not= applying (skipping) the parts of the 2.6.39.1 patch to
above 3 files.
So yes removing "x86, efi: Retain boot service code until after
switching to virtual mode" indeed fixes the problem for me.

Jim