linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc

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Message-Id: <4E42B8000200007800050992@nat28.tlf.novell.com>
Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:55:28 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy.fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
	"Matt Fleming" <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>, <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com>,
	"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	"johnstultz" <johnstul@...ibm.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, efi: Don't recursively acquire rtc_lock

>>> On 10.08.11 at 15:12, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 10.08.11 at 11:51, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> > * Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
> >> But then again I don't seem to be able to boot 3.0.1 with both 
> >> patches applied on my only EFI box, so there must be something else 
> >> that broke, and hence maybe I really did test it (on 3.0-rc7) and 
> >> it worked then. Debugging...
> > 
> > Ok, once you figure it out we can merge all fixes upstream ASAP.
> 
> So this is a combination of two recent events: In my patch set, I
> recently removed efi.c's X86_32 conditional around setting
> x86_platform.[gs]et_wallclock. Without that removal, the deadlock
> wouldn't occur (because mach_get_cmos_time() would get called
> instead) on 64-bits, which is the only thing I run.
> 
> With that conditional removed, Matthew's NX consolidation patch
> gets into the way: For the physical call path it is simply wrong
> (correct only for the phys_efi_set_virtual_address_map() call, as
> there the memory map got virtual addresses assigned already) -
> it switches from early_runtime_code_mapping_set_exec()'s using
> of md->phys_addr to efi_set_executable() using md->virt_addr.
> But the latter isn't set at that point yet. And it's unclear to me why
> this works on 32-bit.

Worse - even the original code would not have worked afaict. Calling
set_memory_{,n}x() this early cannot work without a small adjustment
to the CPA logic, as all of the flushing functions have
BUG_ON(irqs_disabled()) at their beginning.

Jan

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