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From: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Sergey Shatunov <me@prok.pw>,
	hpa@zytor.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	initramfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Donovan Tremura <neurognostic@protonmail.ch>,
	Harald Hoyer <harald@hoyer.xyz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 10:38:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200410143821.GB936997@rani.riverdale.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200410112605.GA3344@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 01:26:05PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I did write an email to x86@kernel.org, which sadly seems to have no
> mailing list archive, I wonder if my problem has anything to do with the
> patches you are discussing here:
> 
> I found this reply, which contains my original email in my inbox:
> 
> Subject: Kernel v5.5 doesn't boot on my x86 laptop
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using an old MacBookPro1,1 to run Fedora 30 (the last one to support
> x86) and a upstream up-to-date kernel, currently 5.4.16.
> 
> I'm using sd-boot to boot into an EFI-enabled kernel which contains
> an embedded initram cpio image (because loading the image from kernel's
> EFI stub doesn't seem to work for some unknown reason, I tried to debug
> this but my early debugging foo is too weak).
> 
> Kernel 5.4.x works correctly with this setup (but resuming from disk
> seems to have broken in 5.4.x or maybe even earlier - when resuming from
> disk I get all kind of funky OOPSes/errors, but that's another story, hopefully
> 5.5.x was fixed in this regards).
> 
> So I did have a look at the commits under arch/x86/boot and "x86/boot:
> Introduce setup_indirect" (b3c72fc9a78e74161f9d05ef7191706060628f8c) did
> talk about "bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S", so I
> did revert above commit and I was finally able to boot into v5.5 kernel!
> 
> So either sd-boot also needs an upgrade or this commit does break
> something.
> Any help is welcome, don't hesitate to get in contact with me if you
> have any questions.
> 
> mfg
> thomas
>  

If it is a problem with 5.5, it would be unrelated to this thread, which
is about problems introduced by patches for the upcoming 5.7.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-10 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 115+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09 15:02 [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage Arvind Sankar
2020-01-09 15:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 11:44   ` Kees Cook
2020-02-19 16:55   ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22  5:08   ` [PATCH 2/2] " Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-22  6:55     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-22  7:02       ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-22  7:21         ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-22  7:42           ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-22 15:37             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22 16:44               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22 17:18                 ` [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Fix compressed kernel linking with lld Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22 18:14                   ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-22 18:58                     ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-22 20:17                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22 21:01                         ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-22 23:33                           ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-22 23:57                             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-23 19:37                               ` [PATCH 0/2] Stop generating .eh_frame sections Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24  4:15                                 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-24 20:49                                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 21:53                                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 22:01                                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-23 19:37                               ` [PATCH 1/2] arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 20:33                                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 21:05                                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 21:12                                     ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-24 21:17                                       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 21:22                                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-23 19:37                               ` [PATCH 2/2] arch/x86: Drop unneeded linker script discard of .eh_frame Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 20:45                                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 21:33                                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 21:58                                     ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 23:21                                       ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Stop generating .eh_frame sections Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 23:21                                       ` [PATCH v2 1/2] arch/x86: Use -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables to suppress " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 23:28                                         ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-24 23:30                                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-25  4:10                                         ` Kees Cook
2020-02-25 16:53                                         ` [tip: x86/boot] x86/*/Makefile: " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 23:21                                       ` [PATCH v2 2/2] arch/x86: Drop unneeded linker script discard of .eh_frame Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 23:28                                         ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-02-24 23:33                                         ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-25  4:11                                         ` Kees Cook
2020-02-25 16:53                                         ` [tip: x86/boot] x86/vmlinux: " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-02-23 22:00                           ` [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Fix compressed kernel linking with lld Kees Cook
2020-02-24  6:06                             ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-22 17:29                 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections from bzImage Borislav Petkov
2020-02-22 17:53                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22  7:42           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-22 16:22             ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-22 23:20               ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 13:28                 ` Michael Matz
2020-02-24 20:51                   ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 21:28                     ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-24 21:48                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 22:17                         ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-24 22:43                           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 22:50                             ` Fangrui Song
2020-02-24 23:08                               ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-25  5:35                 ` --orphan-handling=warn (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections) " Kees Cook
2020-02-25 16:42                   ` --orphan-handling=warn Arvind Sankar
2020-02-25 18:29                   ` --orphan-handling=warn Arvind Sankar
2020-02-25 19:42                     ` --orphan-handling=warn Kees Cook
2020-02-25 20:37                       ` --orphan-handling=warn Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-25 22:02                         ` --orphan-handling=warn Kees Cook
2020-02-26  1:56                           ` --orphan-handling=warn Fangrui Song
2020-02-26  5:35                             ` --orphan-handling=warn Kees Cook
2020-02-26 19:11                               ` --orphan-handling=warn Kristen Carlson Accardi
2020-02-26 19:26                                 ` --orphan-handling=warn Nick Desaulniers
2020-02-24 11:37   ` [tip: x86/boot] x86/boot/compressed: Remove .eh_frame section from bzImage tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 16:41     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-24 17:16       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-24 17:28         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-05 16:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable " Arvind Sankar
2020-02-18 18:03   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-19 12:09     ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-19 17:57       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-19 18:22         ` Borislav Petkov
2020-02-19 19:06           ` Arvind Sankar
2020-02-06 11:18 ` Kees Cook
2020-02-19 16:55 ` [tip: x86/boot] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-04-05 15:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Sergey Shatunov
2020-04-05 23:18   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06  0:00     ` Sergey Shatunov
2020-04-06  3:51       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06  7:32         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06  8:47           ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-06  9:11             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 11:20               ` Borislav Petkov
2020-04-06 13:22                 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 13:29                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 16:01                     ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 16:22                       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 16:52                         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 16:59                           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 18:06                             ` [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 18:06                               ` [PATCH 2/2] efi/x86: Always relocate the kernel for EFI handover entry Arvind Sankar
2020-04-14  8:20                                 ` [tip: efi/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 18:29                               ` [PATCH 1/2] efi/x86: Move efi stub globals from .bss to .data Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-08  7:43                               ` Dave Young
2020-04-08  7:49                                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-09 14:39                                   ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-09 14:47                                     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-09 16:35                                       ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-10 14:47                                         ` Arvind Sankar
2020-04-10 15:26                                           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-14 14:57                                             ` Daniel Kiper
2020-04-10 11:26                               ` Thomas Meyer
2020-04-10 14:38                                 ` Arvind Sankar [this message]
2020-04-11  8:50                                   ` Thomas Meyer
2020-04-14  8:20                               ` [tip: efi/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-04-06 17:21                     ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage Borislav Petkov
2020-04-06  8:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-04-06 12:36       ` Sergey Shatunov
2020-04-06 13:20         ` Ard Biesheuvel

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