From: "Prakhya, Sai Praneeth" <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <drake@endlessm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@endlessm.com>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
"linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org>,
Endless Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@endlessm.com>
Subject: RE: EFI reboot vs. ACPI reboot (was: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/reboot, efi: Use EFI reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T)
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 17:22:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FFF73D592F13FD46B8700F0A279B802F48AFEFF2@ORSMSX114.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_jqoKiqq4ozcPwSxLmpuaWsFKy_xyYGhECLz+KLHOjOw@mail.gmail.com>
> > >> That seems counter-intuitive to me: if no full ACPI hardware is
> > >> implemented then we should assume reduced ACPI functionality, i.e.
> > >> if
> > >the
> > >> EFI runtime is otherwise available we should default to it.
> > >
> > >It's a bit confusing, but my loose understanding is that previous
> > >versions of the ACPI spec required system implementors to implement
> > >the whole thing; but that's increasingly impractical today, e.g. with
> > >ARM systems coming along, which do not gel well with some of the
> > >historical x86-rooted design aspects that spilled over into ACPI. The
> > >V5 spec introduces reduced mode as an opt-in new feature, but for
> > >compatibility with pre-V5 implementations it needs to consider "full
> > >hardware" mode as the default.
> > >
> > >> Feel free to send a patch that makes EFI reboot the default one
> > >> under these circumstances,
> > >
> > >Just to check, you mean: EFI reboot (and shutdown) become the default
> > >methods when the machine is booted in EFI mode, and EFI stuff has not
> > >been disabled with a kernel parameter?
> > >Even when running in full hardware ACPI mode.
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >Daniel
> >
> > This, I believe, is known to not work.
>
> It definitely used to be the case that EFI reboot was unreliable, but I don't know
> the details.
Sorry! Ard.
I don't have the enough historical knowledge to state that EFI reboot is unreliable
on most of the x86 systems but I did come across two systems that had buggy implementation
of EFI reboot and hence I have added code to deal with EFI runtime services that cause page faults.
I will ask around internally to check if it is a good idea to make EFI reboot the default method
when the machine is booted in EFI mode.
> I have added Sai to cc, he may be able to provide a bit more context
> here, since he added the code to deal with page faults during EFI runtime service
> invocations (which was inspired by a EFI reboot issue IIRC). That feature may
> have improved the situation, but I am not confident at all that it fixes all
> systems.
I believe, the code I added should improve the situation but I am hesitant to say that it fixes
*all* the systems because the code addresses only one type of bug namely EFI Reboot accessing
illegal memory and I have no idea about other buggy implementations.
Regards,
Sai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-17 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-12 8:01 [PATCH v2] x86/reboot: Use efi reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T Jian-Hong Pan
2019-04-16 7:52 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/reboot: Use EFI " tip-bot for Jian-Hong Pan
2019-04-16 8:07 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/reboot, efi: " tip-bot for Jian-Hong Pan
2019-04-16 8:20 ` EFI reboot vs. ACPI reboot (was: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/reboot, efi: Use EFI reboot for Acer TravelMate X514-51T) Ingo Molnar
2019-04-16 11:35 ` Daniel Drake
2019-04-17 6:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 12:38 ` Daniel Drake
2019-04-17 15:15 ` hpa
2019-04-17 15:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-04-17 17:22 ` Prakhya, Sai Praneeth [this message]
2019-04-17 18:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 19:07 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-04-17 19:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 16:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-17 16:51 ` hpa
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