This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/early_ioremap: Fix boot hang with earlyprintk=efi,keep to the 3.18-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: mm-early_ioremap-fix-boot-hang-with-earlyprintk-efi-keep.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 12:01:27 CET 2018 From: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 12:16:10 +0800 Subject: mm/early_ioremap: Fix boot hang with earlyprintk=efi,keep From: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 7f6f60a1ba52538c16f26930bfbcfe193d9d746a ] earlyprintk=efi,keep does not work any more with a warning in mm/early_ioremap.c: WARN_ON(system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING): Boot just hangs because of the earlyprintk within the earlyprintk implementation code itself. This is caused by a new introduced middle state in: 69a78ff226fe ("init: Introduce SYSTEM_SCHEDULING state") early_ioremap() is fine in both SYSTEM_BOOTING and SYSTEM_SCHEDULING states, original condition should be updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: bp@xxxxxxx Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171209041610.GA3249@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/early_ioremap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/early_ioremap.c +++ b/mm/early_ioremap.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ __early_ioremap(resource_size_t phys_add enum fixed_addresses idx; int i, slot; - WARN_ON(system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING); + WARN_ON(system_state >= SYSTEM_RUNNING); slot = -1; for (i = 0; i < FIX_BTMAPS_SLOTS; i++) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/mm-early_ioremap-fix-boot-hang-with-earlyprintk-efi-keep.patch