I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the machines I haven't seen it crop up on machines with more then 512 GB of ram. It shows in the latest linus kernel too. I am (wildly) guessing that what is happening is that the new_memmap that is being passed to bios is somehow placed incorrectly. I have come up with a workaround. By placing it the DMA area the issue goes away but that doesn't seem like a real fix. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020 IP: [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU 0 Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 3.8.0-rc1-next-20121224-medusa_ntz+ #2 Intel Corp. Stoutland Platform RIP: 0010:[<0000000078bce331>] [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 RSP: 0000:ffffffff81601d28 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 0000000078b80e18 RBX: 0000000000000004 RCX: 0000000000000004 RDX: 0000000078bcf958 RSI: 0000000000002400 RDI: 8000000000000000 RBP: 0000000078bcf760 R08: 000000effd870000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 00000000000000c3 R12: 0000000000000030 R13: 000000effd870000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88effd870000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88effe400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000000effd870020 CR3: 000000000160c000 CR4: 00000000000006b0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process swapper/0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff81600000, task ffffffff81614400) Stack: 0000000078b80d18 0000000000000004 0000000078bced7b ffff880078b81fff 0000000000000000 0000000000000082 0000000078bce3a8 0000000000002400 0000000060000202 0000000078b80da0 0000000078bce45d ffffffff8107cb5a Call Trace: [<ffffffff8107cb5a>] ? on_each_cpu+0x77/0x83 [<ffffffff8102f4eb>] ? change_page_attr_set_clr+0x32f/0x3ed [<ffffffff81035946>] ? efi_call4+0x46/0x80 [<ffffffff816c5abb>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1f5/0x305 [<ffffffff816aeb24>] ? start_kernel+0x34a/0x3d2 [<ffffffff816ae5ed>] ? repair_env_string+0x60/0x60 [<ffffffff816ae2be>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0xba/0xc1 [<ffffffff816ae120>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120 [<ffffffff816ae419>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x154/0x163 Code: Bad RIP value. RIP [<0000000078bce331>] 0x78bce330 RSP <ffffffff81601d28> CR2: 000000effd870020 ---[ end trace ead828934fef5eab ]--- --- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c 2012-11-24 09:43:09.236997834 -0600 +++ linux/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c 2012-11-24 09:53:30.264654748 -0600 @@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ } new_memmap = krealloc(new_memmap, (count + 1) * memmap.desc_size, - GFP_KERNEL); + GFP_DMA); memcpy(new_memmap + (count * memmap.desc_size), md, memmap.desc_size); count++; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
