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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:18:49 +0100
From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
To: Jia He <justin.he@....com>, "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix boot hang issue on Ampere Emag server
(cc Jason for awareness)
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 05:04, Jia He <justin.he@....com> wrote:
>
> I met a hung task warning and then kernel was hung forever with latest
> kernel on an Ampere Emag server.
>
> The root cause is kernel was hung when invoking an efi rts call to set
> the RandomSeed variable during the booting stage. The arch_efi_call_virt
> call (set_variable) was never returned and then caused the hung task error.
>
Given that EFI variables work on this platform (as far as I know), the
problem may be that we are calling SetVariable() too early.
Could you double check whether setting variables works as expected?
You can use efibootmgr -t 10 as root (for example) to set the boot
timeout, and check whether the new value is retained after a reboot
(efibootmgr will print the current value for you)
Could you also please share the kernel log up until the point where it hangs?
> On the Emag server, efi_rt_services_supported(EFI_RT_SUPPORTED_SET_VARIABLE)
> is returned with "true"
>
This is as expected: if the firmware does not expose the RT properties
table, all runtime services are assumed to be available.
> Fix it by introducing the efi_get_supported_rt_services() and then determine
> to set or clear the runtime services bit of efi.flags.
>
> Jia He (2):
> efi: libstub: Fix the retriving of supported rutime services
> efi: Introduce efi_get_supported_rt_services() to get the runtime
> services mask
>
> drivers/firmware/efi/arm-runtime.c | 5 ++++-
> drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++--------
> drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub.c | 2 ++
> include/linux/efi.h | 1 +
> 4 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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