linux-kernel - Re: 3.13.0: crash on boot

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Date:	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:00:45 +0400
From:	"Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <Alexandra.Kossovsky@...etlabs.ru>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Matt Fleming <matt@...sole-pimps.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>
Subject: Re: 3.13.0: crash on boot

On Feb 05 02:32, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:30:50PM +0400, Alexandra N. Kossovsky wrote:
> > On Feb 03 14:41, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > > Alexandra, any chance you could try out a v3.14-rc1 kernel? Basically
> > > all of the EFI memory mapping code was rewritten for v3.14.
> > 
> > v3.14-rc1: kmemleak complains about acpi code plus the same crash in
> > efi.  Log and config attached.
> > 
> > I'll ask my system administrator for BIOS update.

I asked.  He installed an update.  No difference.

> 
> Btw, did this box boot any kernels successfully in EFI mode at all?

Yes.  It booted, for example, the same 3.13 kernel from Debian - without
debug options.


> make arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.o
> make arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.s
> 
> on that exact same kernel .config and zip and send me those two files?

Attached, from the 3.14-rc1 (config is in one of my previous letters).

-- 
Alexandra N. Kossovsky
OKTET Labs (http://www.oktetlabs.ru/)

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