This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86, efi: Don't map Boot Services on i386
to the 3.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-efi-don-t-map-boot-services-on-i386.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 700870119f49084da004ab588ea2b799689efaf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:51:34 -0700
Subject: x86, efi: Don't map Boot Services on i386
From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 700870119f49084da004ab588ea2b799689efaf7 upstream.
Add patch to fix 32bit EFI service mapping (rhbz 726701)
Multiple people are reporting hitting the following WARNING on i386,
WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:102 __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440()
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.9.0-rc7+ #95
Call Trace:
[<c102b6af>] warn_slowpath_common+0x5f/0x80
[<c1023fb3>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c1023fb3>] ? __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c102b6ed>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
[<c1023fb3>] __ioremap_caller+0x3d3/0x440
[<c106007b>] ? get_usage_chars+0xfb/0x110
[<c102d937>] ? vprintk_emit+0x147/0x480
[<c1418593>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c102406a>] ioremap_cache+0x1a/0x20
[<c1418593>] ? efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c1418593>] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1e4/0x3de
[<c1407984>] start_kernel+0x286/0x2f4
[<c1407535>] ? repair_env_string+0x51/0x51
[<c1407362>] i386_start_kernel+0x12c/0x12f
Due to the workaround described in commit 916f676f8 ("x86, efi: Retain
boot service code until after switching to virtual mode") EFI Boot
Service regions are mapped for a period during boot. Unfortunately, with
the limited size of the i386 direct kernel map it's possible that some
of the Boot Service regions will not be directly accessible, which
causes them to be ioremap()'d, triggering the above warning as the
regions are marked as E820_RAM in the e820 memmap.
There are currently only two situations where we need to map EFI Boot
Service regions,
1. To workaround the firmware bug described in 916f676f8
2. To access the ACPI BGRT image
but since we haven't seen an i386 implementation that requires either,
this simple fix should suffice for now.
[ Added to changelog - Matt ]
Reported-by: Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c
@@ -912,10 +912,13 @@ void __init efi_enter_virtual_mode(void)
for (p = memmap.map; p < memmap.map_end; p += memmap.desc_size) {
md = p;
- if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME) &&
- md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
- md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
- continue;
+ if (!(md->attribute & EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME)) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if (md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE &&
+ md->type != EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA)
+#endif
+ continue;
+ }
size = md->num_pages << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT;
end = md->phys_addr + size;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/x86-efi-don-t-map-boot-services-on-i386.patch
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