Waiman reported that booting with CONFIG_EFI_MIXED enabled on his multi-terabyte HP machine results in boot crashes, because the EFI region mapping functions loop forever while trying to map those regions describing RAM. While this patch doesn't fix the underlying hang, there's really no reason to map EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY regions into the EFI page tables when mixed-mode is not in use at runtime. Reported-by: Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxxx> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@xxxxxxx> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.6+ Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c index 677e29e29473..8dd3784eb075 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi_64.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ int __init efi_setup_page_tables(unsigned long pa_memmap, unsigned num_pages) * text and allocate a new stack because we can't rely on the * stack pointer being < 4GB. */ - if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED)) + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_EFI_MIXED) || efi_is_native()) return 0; /* -- 2.9.3 -- 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
