linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit

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Message-ID: <CAE9FiQXqXh9OQvu2a-atm3Ydhi+LOLw1pLJ-tCavmSnAohXmkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:02:20 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Mallick, Asit K" <asit.k.mallick@...el.com>,
	Tigran Aivazian <tigran@...azian.fsnet.co.uk>,
	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 08/10] x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Yu, Fenghua <fenghua.yu@...el.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it has to be rebased after #PF handler version. otherwise it can not
>>> handle for framdisk
>>> that is loaded after 1G.
>>>
>>> Fenghua,
>>>
>>> can you post your boot log with 64bit with your patch?
>>>
>>> Yinghai
>>
>> Attached is dmesg with the patches.
>>
>
> yes, your laptop only have 1G ram, and
>
> [    0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009d7ff] usable
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009d800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000d2000-0x00000000000d3fff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000003e6affff] usable
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003e6b0000-0x000000003e6ccfff] ACPI data
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003e6cd000-0x000000003e6fffff] ACPI NVS
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000003e700000-0x000000003effffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000f0000000-0x00000000f3ffffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fec00000-0x00000000fec0ffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed00000-0x00000000fed003ff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed14000-0x00000000fed19fff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fed1c000-0x00000000fed8ffff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fee00000-0x00000000fee00fff] reserved
> [    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000ff000000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
>
> ramdisk is at
>      RAMDISK: [mem 0x27608000-0x2fafbfff]
>
> and current kernel default set 1G to kernel mapping. so it happens to
> work with your patchset.
>
> please find one sytem with 4G or more to test it.
>
> and you may need to rebase your patches on top of my for-x86-boot
> branch with working
> #PF handler set page table patch.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git
> for-x86-boot

also you did not consider initrd relocating....

please check attached fix, and see if you can fold in into you next posting.

Thanks

Yinghai

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