Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 07:52:42PM +0200, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > +		 */
> > +
> > +		if ((start <= virt_to_phys(_etext)-1 && end >= virt_to_phys(_text)) ||
> > +		    (start <= virt_to_phys(_edata)-1 && end >= virt_to_phys(_etext)) ||
> _etext -> _sdata perhaps?

_etext is used for the resource allocation earlier, which seems like 
it's probably the relevant thing to be copying.

> >  		memblock_x86_reserve_range(start, start + size, "EFI Boot");
> >  	}
> >  }
> Will test though. It might also be appropriate to put a WARN when that condition happens.

That'd end up triggering even in cases that are absolutely safe (ie, the 
firmware doesn't have this bug). The amount of suck here is incredible.

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