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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 20:34:31 +0000
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
To: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>, waiman.long@....com,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION][v4.9.y][v4.10.y] x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page
tables if in mixed-mode
On 2 February 2017 at 20:17, Joseph Salisbury
<joseph.salisbury@...onical.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> A kernel bug report was opened against Ubuntu [0]. After a kernel
> bisect, it was found that reverting the following commit resolved this bug:
>
> commit 1297667083d5442aafe3e337b9413bf02b114edb
> Author: Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>
> Date: Mon Sep 19 13:09:09 2016 +0100
>
> x86/efi: Only map RAM into EFI page tables if in mixed-mode
>
>
> The regression was introduced as of v4.8-rc8. It also still affects
> current mainline.
>
> I was hoping to get your feedback, since you are the patch author. Do
> you think gathering any additional data will help diagnose this issue,
> or would it be best to submit a revert request?
>
Does this patch help at all?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi.git/commit/?h=urgent&id=090abfc9dc7faf3f84799f956158c8c3af149a81
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