From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>,
Jim Bos <jim876@xs4all.nl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:29:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110611152931.GA13902@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF2A81C.7000902@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:26:20PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 04:03 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The medium-term fix is to ensure that the bootloaders don't put the
> > kernel on top of boot services code.
>
> that is not enough, will need to make arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S parse e820 table to find right decompress position.
That's fine, we can ensure we load it where there's enough space.
> > 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.
>
> that is questionable and dangerous. before SetVirtualAddressMap, some function in boot service could be called,
> those data or code for boot services could be overlapped kernel. so kernel code could be damaged by those calling.
Right now it's guaranteed that the system will crash in this situation.
It seems reasonable to give it a fighting chance.
> also that will make our kernel code more messy.
It's code that deals with firmware, so really that's a given...
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-06 11:15 gcc 4.5.1 / as 2.20.51.0.11 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c ? Jim
2010-11-07 21:31 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-07 22:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-07 23:03 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-08 10:49 ` Richard Guenther
2010-11-08 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-08 11:20 ` Richard Guenther
2010-11-08 11:47 ` Paul Koning
2010-11-08 11:53 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-08 12:20 ` Michael Matz
2010-11-08 18:39 ` Dave Korn
2010-11-09 13:00 ` Michael Matz
2010-11-09 13:48 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-09 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-11-09 16:43 ` Jim
2010-11-13 11:13 ` [PATCH] i8k: Tell gcc that *regs gets clobbered Jim Bos
2010-11-15 0:52 ` gcc 4.5.1 / as 2.20.51.0.11 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c ? James Cloos
2010-11-15 3:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 8:56 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 9:12 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 9:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 10:03 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 10:54 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 11:16 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 11:37 ` Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 17:36 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 17:44 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 18:17 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 18:26 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 19:10 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 16:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 17:40 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 18:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 18:30 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 18:37 ` Jim Bos
2010-11-15 18:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 18:58 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 19:12 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 19:51 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 20:22 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-03 13:05 ` 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system Jim Bos
2011-06-03 13:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-03 14:26 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-03 14:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-05 10:40 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-05 12:57 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-06 15:01 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-06 15:40 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-06 15:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-06 15:27 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-06 16:11 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-06 16:43 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-07 0:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-07 1:41 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-07 2:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-07 8:25 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-07 15:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-07 9:08 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-07 12:22 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-07 22:25 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 16:44 ` Jim Bos
2011-06-08 19:17 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 19:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 19:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 19:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 19:35 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 19:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 19:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 19:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 19:48 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 19:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 20:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 20:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 20:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 20:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 20:36 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 20:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 20:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-08 21:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-08 21:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 21:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-08 21:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-08 21:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-08 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-08 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-06-08 23:54 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-08 21:38 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-10 16:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 17:51 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-10 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 22:45 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-10 22:58 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-10 23:03 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 23:17 ` Greg KH
2011-06-10 23:22 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-10 23:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-10 23:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-10 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-10 23:55 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-11 0:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-11 0:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-14 18:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-06-11 15:29 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-06-10 23:00 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-06-13 16:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-13 17:52 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-13 18:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-13 18:14 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-13 18:17 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-13 18:23 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-13 18:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-13 18:45 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-14 14:34 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-14 14:50 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2011-06-14 14:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-11-15 22:43 ` gcc 4.5.1 / as 2.20.51.0.11 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c ? Andi Kleen
2010-11-15 22:46 ` Jakub Jelinek
2010-11-15 19:53 ` Richard Henderson
2010-11-15 10:24 ` Richard Guenther
2010-11-15 18:45 ` Jeff Law
2010-11-15 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-15 22:07 ` Richard Guenther
2010-11-15 22:58 ` Jeff Law
2010-11-15 23:07 ` Richard Guenther
2010-11-16 4:10 ` Jeff Law
2010-11-15 18:42 ` Jeff Law
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