FYI, we noticed the below changes on

https://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/linux-arm efi-for-3.19
commit aacdce6e880894acb57d71dcb2e3fc61b4ed4e96 ("dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point")


+-----------------------+------------+------------+
|                       | 2fa165a26c | aacdce6e88 |
+-----------------------+------------+------------+
| boot_successes        | 20         | 10         |
| early-boot-hang       | 1          |            |
| boot_failures         | 0          | 5          |
| PANIC:early_exception | 0          | 5          |
+-----------------------+------------+------------+


[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000036fffffff] usable
[    0.000000] bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
[    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff81899e6b error 9 cr2 ffffffffff240000
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-gc5221e6 #1
[    0.000000]  0000000000000000 ffffffff82203d30 ffffffff819f0a6e 00000000000003f8
[    0.000000]  ffffffffff240000 ffffffff82203e18 ffffffff823701b0 ffffffff82511401
[    0.000000]  0000000000000000 0000000000000ba3 0000000000000000 ffffffffff240000
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff819f0a6e>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823701b0>] early_idt_handler+0x90/0xb7
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81899e6b>] ? dmi_table+0x3f/0x94
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff81899e42>] ? dmi_table+0x16/0x94
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c7eff>] dmi_walk_early+0x44/0x69
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c88a2>] dmi_present+0x180/0x1ff
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823c8ab3>] dmi_scan_machine+0x144/0x191
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff82370702>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff82377f52>] setup_arch+0x490/0xc73
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff819eef73>] ? printk+0x4d/0x4f
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff82370b90>] start_kernel+0x9c/0x43f
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff82370120>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823704a2>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[    0.000000]  [<ffffffff823705df>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x13b/0x14a
[    0.000000] RIP 0x4