Mantas found that after commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G"), the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment when trying to boot via UEFI on Asus laptop. Revert to old way to load initrd under 4G on first try, second try will use above 4G buffer when initrd is too big and does not fit under 4G. -v2: add print out for second try, and print out files buf address. Reported-by: Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Anders Darander <anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c | 18 +++++++++++------- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/compressed/eboot.c @@ -1032,7 +1032,6 @@ struct boot_params *make_boot_params(str int i; unsigned long ramdisk_addr; unsigned long ramdisk_size; - unsigned long initrd_addr_max; efi_early = c; sys_table = (efi_system_table_t *)(unsigned long)efi_early->table; @@ -1095,15 +1094,20 @@ struct boot_params *make_boot_params(str memset(sdt, 0, sizeof(*sdt)); - if (hdr->xloadflags & XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G) - initrd_addr_max = -1UL; - else - initrd_addr_max = hdr->initrd_addr_max; - status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, (char *)(unsigned long)hdr->cmd_line_ptr, - "initrd=", initrd_addr_max, + "initrd=", hdr->initrd_addr_max, &ramdisk_addr, &ramdisk_size); + + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS && + hdr->xloadflags & XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G) { + efi_printk(sys_table, "Trying to load files to higher address\n"); + status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, + (char *)(unsigned long)hdr->cmd_line_ptr, + "initrd=", -1UL, + &ramdisk_addr, &ramdisk_size); + } + if (status != EFI_SUCCESS) goto fail2; hdr->ramdisk_image = ramdisk_addr & 0xffffffff; Index: linux-2.6/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.c @@ -396,6 +396,7 @@ efi_status_t handle_cmdline_files(efi_sy if (file_size_total) { unsigned long addr; + char buf[64]; /* * Multiple files need to be at consecutive addresses in memory, @@ -416,6 +417,10 @@ efi_status_t handle_cmdline_files(efi_sy goto free_file_total; } + snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "files buf: [%lx,%lx)\n", + file_addr, file_addr + file_size_total); + efi_printk(sys_table_arg, buf); + addr = file_addr; for (j = 0; j < nr_files; j++) { unsigned long size; -- 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