Re: [tip regression] efi: Allow drivers to reserve boot services forever == toxic

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On Fri, 16 Sep, at 08:05:12AM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> My workstation started instant rebooting with tip.  I bisected it to..
> 
>    efi/esrt: Use efi_mem_reserve() and avoid a kmalloc()
> 
> ..but seems it's really $subject, as box works fine with the below.
> 
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ void __init efi_mem_reserve(phys_addr_t
>  {
>  	if (!memblock_is_region_reserved(addr, size))
>  		memblock_reserve(addr, size);
> +	else
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Some architectures (x86) reserve all boot services ranges
> 
> 
> No idea what's going boom down in efi_arch_mem_reserve().

Urgh, that's bad. Which machine is this? Can you paste the dmesg after
booting with the efi=debug kernel parameter, either with your above
patch or with the commit reverted?
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