Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

From: Maarten Lankhorst
Date: Tue Jun 07 2011 - 05:08:12 EST


Hi,

Op 07-06-11 04:05, Yinghai Lu schreef:
> On 06/06/2011 06:41 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:19:17PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>>> assume EFI in ram is not page-aligned?
>> They'll be 4K aligned at least.
>>
>
> can you get boot log with "memblock=debug"?
Well that definitely helped me isolate things. It seems some ranges are reserved already.
I added a simple patch to ignore the reservations there. Just a proof of concept,
don't rate for style. :-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/memblock.c b/arch/x86/mm/memblock.c
index aa11693..013ecf5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/memblock.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
#include <linux/range.h>

/* Check for already reserved areas */
-static bool __init check_with_memblock_reserved_size(u64 *addrp, u64 *sizep, u64 align)
+bool __init check_with_memblock_reserved_size(u64 *addrp, u64 *sizep, u64 align)
{
struct memblock_region *r;
u64 addr = *addrp, last;
diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
index 0d3a4fa..eb3a4d9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -304,20 +304,29 @@ static void __init print_efi_memmap(void)
}
#endif /* EFI_DEBUG */

+extern bool __init check_with_memblock_reserved_size(u64 *addrp,
+ u64 *sizep,
+ u64 align);
+
void __init efi_reserve_boot_services(void)
{
void *p;

for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
efi_memory_desc_t *md = p;
- unsigned long long start = md->phys_addr;
- unsigned long long size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
+ u64 start = md->phys_addr;
+ u64 size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;

if (md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
continue;
-
- memblock_x86_reserve_range(start, start + size, "EFI Boot");
+ if (check_with_memblock_reserved_size(&start, &size, 1<<EFI_PAGE_SHIFT)) {
+ /* Could not reserve, skip it */
+ md->num_pages = 0;
+ printk(KERN_INFO PFX "Could not reserve boot area "
+ "[0x%llx - 0x%llx]\n", start, start+size);
+ } else
+ memblock_x86_reserve_range(start, start+size, "EFI Boot");
}
}

@@ -334,6 +343,10 @@ static void __init efi_free_boot_services(void)
md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
continue;

+ /* Could not reserve boot area */
+ if (size)
+ continue;
+
free_bootmem_late(start, size);
}
}


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