From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:42:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ad5bce7409d681a5655c66e64bb0eb740b89c1f;p=GitHub%2Fexynos8895%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal8895.git x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved) Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15a-dirty #5 Call Trace: [] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69 [] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4 [] efi_init+0xce/0x932 [] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a [] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8 [] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632 [] start_kernel+0x91/0x367 [] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7 [] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7 RIP 0x10 Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit processors). Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with _PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once we've established that the processor does indeed support NX. That will prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it. The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier. Reported-by: Russ Anderson Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 362d4e7f2d38..9838f2539dfc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -670,6 +670,10 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) parse_early_param(); +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + check_efer(); +#endif + #if defined(CONFIG_VMI) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32) /* * Must be before kernel pagetables are setup @@ -738,7 +742,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) #else num_physpages = max_pfn; - check_efer(); /* How many end-of-memory variables you have, grandma! */ /* need this before calling reserve_initrd */