From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:24:34 +0200 Message-ID: <53F752A2.7080604@redhat.com> References: <53E62EEF.9040801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53E62EEF.9040801-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: =?UTF-8?B?TWFudGFzIE1pa3VsxJduYXM=?= , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: Yinghai Lu List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On 09.08.2014 16:23, Mantas Mikul=C4=97nas wrote: > As of commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G")= , > the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment when trying to boo= t > via UEFI on my Asus laptop. (It still boots via BIOS.) >=20 > If I revert that commit on current master (c309bfa9b481), it boots > correctly again [although I see "setup_efi_pci() failed" being printe= d]. >=20 > (Seems like it freezes when handle_cmdline_files() attempts to read > the last chunk of the initramfs -- the last call to efi_file_read() > never returns. Figuring out why that happens is beyond me, though.) >=20 I fixed my issue with: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/22/232 Care to test? From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756470AbaHVOYn (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:24:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15155 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756329AbaHVOYl (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Aug 2014 10:24:41 -0400 Message-ID: <53F752A2.7080604@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:24:34 +0200 From: Harald Hoyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?TWFudGFzIE1pa3VsxJduYXM=?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org CC: Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: Loading initrd above 4G causes freeze on boot References: <53E62EEF.9040801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53E62EEF.9040801@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09.08.2014 16:23, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote: > As of commit 4bf7111f5016 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G"), > the kernel freezes at the earliest possible moment when trying to boot > via UEFI on my Asus laptop. (It still boots via BIOS.) > > If I revert that commit on current master (c309bfa9b481), it boots > correctly again [although I see "setup_efi_pci() failed" being printed]. > > (Seems like it freezes when handle_cmdline_files() attempts to read > the last chunk of the initramfs -- the last call to efi_file_read() > never returns. Figuring out why that happens is beyond me, though.) > I fixed my issue with: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/22/232 Care to test?