Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-03 Thread Nathan Zimmer
om c96406c36a45de25ac83681971b64d48096288e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Zimmer Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:41:10 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Pass a proper identity mapping in efi_call_phys_prelog Update efi_call_phys_prelog to install an identity mapping of all available memory. This corrects

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-03 Thread Matt Fleming
On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 15:09 -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:13:43PM -0600, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > > On 01/02/2013 12:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > >On 01/02/2013 09:21 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > > >>I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the >

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-02 Thread Robin Holt
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:13:43PM -0600, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > On 01/02/2013 12:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >On 01/02/2013 09:21 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > >>I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the > >>machines I haven't seen it crop up on machines with more th

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-02 Thread Nathan Zimmer
On 01/02/2013 12:04 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 01/02/2013 09:21 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote: I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the machines I haven't seen it crop up on machines with more then 512 GB of ram. It shows in the latest linus kernel too. I am (wildly)

Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 01/02/2013 09:21 AM, Nathan Zimmer wrote: > I am getting an early boot problem. It only happens on the larger of the > machines I haven't seen it crop up on machines with more then 512 GB of ram. > It shows in the latest linus kernel too. > > I am (wildly) guessing that what is happening is tha

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000effd870020

2013-01-02 Thread Nathan Zimmer
os is somehow placed incorrectly. I have come up with a workaround. By placing it the DMA area the issue goes away but that doesn't seem like a real fix. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00effd870020 IP: [<78bce331>] 0x78bce330 PGD 0 Oops: [#1] SMP Module