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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:34:02 +0000 From: "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@...el.com> To: Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org> CC: "Fleming, Matt" <matt.fleming@...el.com>, "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "devel@...ica.org" <devel@...ica.org>, "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>, "Wysocki, Rafael J" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>, "Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@...el.com> Subject: RE: kernel boot fail with efi earlyprintk (bisected) Hi, > From: Dave Young [mailto:dyoung@...hat.com] > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:07 PM > To: Matt Fleming > Cc: Zheng, Lv; Fleming, Matt; linux-efi@...r.kernel.org; linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; devel@...ica.org; > lenb@...nel.org; Wysocki, Rafael J; Moore, Robert > Subject: Re: kernel boot fail with efi earlyprintk (bisected) > > On 08/22/14 at 06:02pm, Dave Young wrote: > > On 08/21/14 at 09:52pm, Matt Fleming wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Aug, at 04:16:58PM, Dave Young wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > 3.16 kernel boot fail with earlyprintk=efi on my laptop. > > > > It keeps scrolling at the bottom line of screen. > > > > > > > > Bisected, the first bad commit is below: > > > > commit 86dfc6f339886559d80ee0d4bd20fe5ee90450f0 > > > > Author: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com> > > > > Date: Fri Apr 4 12:38:57 2014 +0800 > > > > > > > > ACPICA: Tables: Fix table checksums verification before installation. > > > > > > > > > > > > I did some debugging by enabling both serial and efi earlyprintk, below is > > > > some debug dmesg, seems early_ioremap fails in scroll up function due to > > > > no free slot, but I'm still not sure if the debug info is right or not. > > > > > > Thanks Dave, your callstack seems to make sense. > > > > > > Can you also enable early_ioremap_debug so that we can figure out where > > > all the FIXMAP slots are going? > > > > With early_ioremap_debug enabled, there will be a lot of "dropped printk", so > > I can not get any useful information. > > > > Will try to do more debug. > > early_ioremap_debug does not work because we are debugging early_printk but > early_ioremap_debug itself will print warning message at the same time. > > Tried what Lv mentioned, increasing the early ioremap slots does help. Could you send a tested patch to linux-acpi@...r.kermel.org for this? I think the number of early mapping slots need to be increased by 1 because of this case. Thanks and best regards -Lv -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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