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    • Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
      x86: fix possible x86_64 and EFI regression · 0ad5bce7
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
      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-gec0c15af
      
      -dirty #5
      
      Call Trace:
       [<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
       [<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4
       [<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932
       [<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a
       [<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8
       [<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632
       [<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367
       [<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7
       [<ffffffff808492b0>] 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: default avatarRuss Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0ad5bce7
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