From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>,
Linux EFI <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] EFI memmap and other fixes, v3
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:56:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1390496192.1792.488.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140123165109.GA11190@pd.tnic>
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 17:51 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 09:30:19AM -0700, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > Since this issue is quite serious on our systems (3.14 kernels won't
> > boot up), I'd really appreciate if the fixes can be made into some
> > 3.14-rc. It can hit on any EFI systems with large memory.
>
> That's why we have "efi=old_map" - so that you can use the old mapping
> method which is a chicken bit for the new scheme.
Good point. Yes, that will help us a lot.
> And I told you privately already that you're better off merging Matt's
> 'next' branch than us exposing this to the world too early. So stop
> pushing this when there are clearly other solutions for your case and be
> patient!
Right, but I just responded to Matt's query. :-)
Thanks,
-Toshi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-23 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 11:48 Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86, ptdump: Add the functionality to dump an arbitrary pagetable Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] efi: Dump the EFI page table Borislav Petkov
2014-01-20 13:38 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-20 13:41 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86, pageattr: Export page unmapping interface Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:48 ` [PATCH 4/5] efi: Make efi virtual runtime map passing more robust Borislav Petkov
2014-01-18 11:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] efi: Split efi_enter_virtual_mode Borislav Petkov
2014-01-20 13:44 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-20 13:46 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-20 14:48 ` Matt Fleming
2014-01-23 9:06 ` [PATCH 0/5] EFI memmap and other fixes, v3 Matt Fleming
2014-01-23 16:30 ` Toshi Kani
2014-01-23 16:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-01-23 16:56 ` Toshi Kani [this message]
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