Re: [PATCH v2] x86/boot: Use EFI setup data if provided

Dave Young
2019-03-25T10:15:20Z

On 03/25/19 at 09:54am, Boris Petkov wrote:
> On March 25, 2019 9:27:21 AM GMT+01:00, Junichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> wrote:
> >On 3/25/19 3:59 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >> On 03/25/19 at 06:47am, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> >>> On 3/25/19 3:19 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>> On 03/25/19 at 02:01pm, Dave Young wrote:
> >>>> I think normally people do not see this bug, because kernel will
> >set the
> >>>> rsdp in boot_params->acpi_rsdp_addr. Maybe you are testing with
> >>>
> >>> I think it's only done for file-based kexec interface.
> >>
> >> Saw Kairui's another reply, yes, kexec-tools need a patch to fill the
> >> value as well then.
> >>
> >> I would vote for a repost of your old patch with some #ifdef
> >
> >Thanks for comments, Dave, Kairui and Baoquan.
> >
> >The problem for me is it's a regression in v5.1-rc1, that breaks
> >existing setup. If early parsing of RSDP is required only for newly
> >supported configuration, I'm fine such configuration requires
> >new tools or new options.
> >
> >This is the 1st version plus #ifdef around the EFI code.
>
> I'm going to repeat that again until you get it:
>
> If the kexec kernel should continue to use efi_systab_init() then you
> should make efi_get_rsdp_addr() exit early in the kexec-ed kernel.

In that way, early parsing will fail in kexeced kernel, am I missing
something? The early code become complicated but since we have already
the early acpi parsing why not to make it consistent in kexeced kernel?

Thanks
Dave