Re: 2.6.39.1 immediately reboots/resets on EFI system

From: Maarten Lankhorst
Date: Tue Jun 14 2011 - 10:51:31 EST


Hey,

Op 13-06-11 20:33, Matthew Garrett schreef:
> Ok, that's odd. These are 0x01800000-0x01900000, which should lie inside
> the kernel data range (01580279-01aa4cff : Kernel data). We should be
> skipping that region. How are we touching that reange at all? Can you
> add a printk to reserve_boot_services to see what it actually ends up
> reserving?
Finally success!

Didn't notice it before, but my efi memmap has:
[ 0.000000] EFI: mem00: type=3, attr=0xf, range=[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000008000) (0MB)

Later on this range gets reserved for bios:

[ 0.000000] e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)
[ 0.000000] e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable)

So I've added a check for e820.

Also with some digging into the swapper warning, it appears to be because
some memory was allocated in the _init part of the kernel, which you didn't check for.
this probably caused the warnings I had. Now I made sure to cover
the entire kernel from _text to _end, which should cover the entire kernel.

~Maarten
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