On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 at 01:18, Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:42:46PM +0700, Sergey Shatunov wrote: > > This patch causes some strange things happens with my laptop. > > > > Cold boot crashed in some early initilization logic with message 'Failed to execute /esp/.../linux.efi: Buffer Too Small'. > > After couple reboots into firmware setup (bios) or hot reboot from other working kernel (without that commit) helps it to boot. > > During bisecting couple times I saw different message: 'exit_efi() failed; efi_main() failed', but above tricks helps it too. Could you please try adding 'efi=no_disable_early_pci_dma' to the kernel command line? The lack of BSS zeroization may result in that option to get inadvertently enabled, and it is known to break exit_boot() on some systems.
