From: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
To: Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com" <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
"bp@suse.de" <bp@suse.de>, "bhe@redhat.com" <bhe@redhat.com>,
"kasong@redhat.com" <kasong@redhat.com>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"kexec@lists.infradead.org" <kexec@lists.infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:16:44 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190325111644.GB13160@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <701c8e69-e1d4-c653-1d87-1c41789d3d54@ce.jp.nec.com>
On 03/25/19 at 10:36am, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> On 3/25/19 7:15 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> > On 03/25/19 at 09:54am, Boris Petkov wrote:
> >> On March 25, 2019 9:27:21 AM GMT+01:00, Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >>> On 3/25/19 3:59 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>> On 03/25/19 at 06:47am, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> >>>>> On 3/25/19 3:19 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>>>> On 03/25/19 at 02:01pm, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>>>> I think normally people do not see this bug, because kernel will
> >>> set the
> >>>>>> rsdp in boot_params->acpi_rsdp_addr. Maybe you are testing with
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I think it's only done for file-based kexec interface.
> >>>>
> >>>> Saw Kairui's another reply, yes, kexec-tools need a patch to fill the
> >>>> value as well then.
> >>>>
> >>>> I would vote for a repost of your old patch with some #ifdef
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for comments, Dave, Kairui and Baoquan.
> >>>
> >>> The problem for me is it's a regression in v5.1-rc1, that breaks
> >>> existing setup. If early parsing of RSDP is required only for newly
> >>> supported configuration, I'm fine such configuration requires
> >>> new tools or new options.
> >>>
> >>> This is the 1st version plus #ifdef around the EFI code.
> >>
> >> I'm going to repeat that again until you get it:
> >>
> >> If the kexec kernel should continue to use efi_systab_init() then you
> >> should make efi_get_rsdp_addr() exit early in the kexec-ed kernel.
> >
> > In that way, early parsing will fail in kexeced kernel, am I missing
> > something? The early code become complicated but since we have already
> > the early acpi parsing why not to make it consistent in kexeced kernel?
>
> AFAIU, early parsing is new code in v5.1-rc1 to support kexec on systems
> with hotpluggable memory with KASLR enabled. For systems that requires the
> new feature, it may be ok to say "you need to use another kexec interface"
> and/or "you need new kexec-tools".
Ok, it makes some sense, Kairui mentioned he will work on a kexec-tools
patch then this becomes a must.
Thanks
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-25 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 90+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-22 11:03 [PATCH] " Junichi Nomura
2019-03-22 15:23 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-25 0:27 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 6:01 ` Dave Young
2019-03-25 6:19 ` Dave Young
2019-03-25 6:45 ` Kairui Song
2019-03-25 6:47 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 6:59 ` Dave Young
2019-03-25 8:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 8:54 ` Boris Petkov
2019-03-25 9:25 ` [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Don't try to search RSDP from EFI when kexec-booted Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 10:15 ` [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided Dave Young
2019-03-25 10:36 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 11:16 ` Dave Young [this message]
2019-03-25 12:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-25 12:23 ` Dave Young
2019-03-25 12:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-25 23:10 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-26 12:46 ` Dave Young
2019-03-26 13:57 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-27 1:48 ` bhe
2019-03-27 12:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-28 4:17 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-28 6:26 ` Chao Fan
2019-03-28 6:43 ` bhe
2019-03-28 7:43 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-28 15:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-29 3:05 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 8:39 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-29 9:05 ` Chao Fan
2019-03-29 9:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-29 9:37 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 9:44 ` Chao Fan
2019-03-29 9:56 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 7:20 ` [PATCH] x86/boot: Use efi_setup_data for searching RSDP on kexec-ed kernel Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 7:49 ` bhe
2019-03-29 8:29 ` Chao Fan
2019-03-29 8:39 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 9:18 ` Chao Fan
2019-03-29 9:16 ` bhe
2019-03-29 9:20 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-01 0:08 ` [PATCH v2] " Junichi Nomura
2019-04-02 9:41 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-02 9:53 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-04-02 11:06 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-02 10:22 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-04-02 12:03 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 5:35 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 5:53 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 6:39 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 7:30 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 7:50 ` bhe
2019-04-03 8:23 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 8:26 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 16:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-04 1:02 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 9:28 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 7:21 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 8:09 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 8:23 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 9:02 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-03 9:39 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-04 1:23 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-04-04 2:52 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 3:00 ` bhe
2019-04-04 3:10 ` bhe
2019-04-04 3:22 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 6:41 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 7:20 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-04 7:41 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 7:48 ` Chao Fan
2019-04-04 12:22 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-04 14:08 ` Dave Young
2019-04-03 8:18 ` Dave Young
2019-04-02 10:25 ` [PATCH v3] " Junichi Nomura
2019-04-04 7:32 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 12:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-04 14:12 ` Dave Young
2019-04-04 14:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-04-05 1:36 ` Dave Young
2019-04-05 4:19 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-28 23:11 ` [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided bhe
2019-03-29 3:34 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-29 3:52 ` bhe
2019-03-29 5:16 ` Junichi Nomura
2019-03-25 7:27 ` [PATCH] " Baoquan He
2019-03-25 7:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-03-25 8:21 ` Baoquan He
2019-03-25 8:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-03-25 9:03 ` Baoquan He
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