Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-02-11 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:19:03PM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > Have there been any developments on this since last week, Boris? Just > trying to make sure that we stay in the loop on this issue. > > Let me know if there's anything else we can do from our end to help > expedite the process. I'm al

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-02-11 Thread Alex Thorlton
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 12:15:40AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 03:45:36PM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > While working on an answer to this question, I ran across another issue > > on some newer hardware, that looks like it's definitely related to this > > problem, and

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-02-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 03:45:36PM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > While working on an answer to this question, I ran across another issue > on some newer hardware, that looks like it's definitely related to this > problem, and might be the root cause. > > When booting on a UV2 we die in efi_enter_v

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-02-05 Thread Alex Thorlton
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:23:18PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > And now my question: > > How can I reliably find out which region contains that > uv_systab.function call? > > I need it so that I can map it in the EFI page table and you can > continue to call that function and you can get back

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:23:18PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > So we should stop any further development just because your machines did > boot nicely before that. What about the other machines and kexec we're > fixing with the work above? Jeez... Alternatively, we can force the old memmap meth

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:02:21AM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > I'm not sure what you are asking for. We had a reliable > way to boot before the recent patch broke it. (commit > d2f7cbe7b26a74dbbbf8f325b2a6fd01bc34032c) So we should stop any further development just because your machines did boot

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 01/30/2014 02:19 PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > > > > > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because it does > > > not work in physical mode. If yo

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Russ Anderson
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 08:04:28AM +, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > Re-adding lkml. > > Also add linux-efi. > > > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because > > it does not work in physical mode. If you ever see "virtefi" > >

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:23:46PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/30/2014 02:19 PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > > > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because it does > > not work in physical mode. If you ever see "virtefi" on the RHEL > > bootline it is because RH switched the

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-31 Thread Matt Fleming
On Thu, 30 Jan, at 04:19:50PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > Re-adding lkml. Also add linux-efi. > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because > it does not work in physical mode. If you ever see "virtefi" > on the RHEL bootline it is because RH switched the default > to physical mode

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/30/2014 02:19 PM, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because > > >

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-30 Thread Alex Thorlton
Re-adding lkml. Here's what we've got as far as your questions go (snipped from an e-mail from Russ): > * what kind of a pointer is that, physical address, or? The quick answer is I think it is a virtual address, because

Re: [BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-23 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:11:08PM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > We've been hitting the following bug in the latest kernel, during boot: Can you merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi.git#next into your tree, enable CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP, apply the debugging patch below,

[BUG] Linux 3.14 fails to boot with new EFI changes

2014-01-23 Thread Alex Thorlton
We've been hitting the following bug in the latest kernel, during boot: kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:351! invalid opcode: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-medusa-04156-g90804ed-dirty #750 Hardware name: Intel Corp. Stoutland Platform, BIOS 2