On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:43:49PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 16:59 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit 67a9108ed4313b85a9c53406d80dc1ae3f8c3e36 upstream. > [...] > > It looks like this will cause regressions unless you also apply: > > 21cdb6b56843 x86/mm: Page align the '_end' symbol to avoid pfn conversion bugs > b61a76f8850d x86/efi: Map RAM into the identity page table for mixed mode > 753b11ef8e92 x86/efi: Setup separate EFI page tables in kexec paths > > and possibly also: > > 08914f436bdd x86/platform/UV: Bring back the call to map_low_mmrs in uv_system_init > 683ad8092cd2 x86/efi: Fix 7-parameter efi_call()s > 80e75596079f efi: Convert efi_call_virt() to efi_call_virt_pointer() > d1be84a232e3 x86/uv: Update uv_bios_call() to use efi_call_virt_pointer() Ugh, that's a mess. Yazen is the one who reported this patch, and 2 others, were needed to resolve an issue on their hardware. Yazen, any thoughts here? Should I just revert the 3 patches, or do you also feel I need all 7 of these to ensure everything works properly? thanks, greg k-h