linux-kernel - Re: 174cc7187e6f ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() and early_acpi_os_unmap

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Date:   Sun, 8 Jan 2017 00:30:27 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>, Bob Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Jörg Rödel <joro@...tes.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ACPI <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 174cc7187e6f ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size()
 and early_acpi_os_unmap_memory() from Linux kernel

On 1/7/2017 9:42 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm bisecting a boot freeze with 4.10-rc2 on a laptop and the commit in
> $Subject is introducing a breakage, see attached splat. Unfortunately,
> it is not complete as I don't have any other means of logging dmesg on a
> laptop.
>
> A temporary workaround is to boot with "intremap=off".
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot revert
>
>    174cc7187e6f ("ACPICA: Tables: Back port acpi_get_table_with_size() and early_acpi_os_unmap_memory() from Linux kernel")
>
> as it doesn't revert cleanly anymore. From looking at the callstack,
> though, it looks like AMD IOMMU is calling acpi_put_table() and patch in
> $Subject touches it so I'm guessing the AMD IOMMU needs to be updated to
> the new way of parsing the IRQ remapping tables or whatever is going on
> there - I'm just guessing.

Hi,

Please check if this helps:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=696c7f8e0373026e8bfb29b2d9ff2d0a92059d4d

Thanks,
Rafael


> Thanks.
>