| Message ID | CAKv+Gu-rRMmcP4LF3oo5=6hf8m7fjzkzV14hfkjBPbPn34OZGA@mail.gmail.com |
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| State | New |
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:44:40AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 7 November 2014 08:37, Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:17:36AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > >> On 7 November 2014 06:47, LKP <lkp@01.org> wrote: > >> > FYI, we noticed the below changes on > >> > > >> > https://git.linaro.org/people/ard.biesheuvel/linux-arm efi-for-3.19 > >> > commit aacdce6e880894acb57d71dcb2e3fc61b4ed4e96 ("dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point") > >> > > >> > > >> > +-----------------------+------------+------------+ > >> > | | 2fa165a26c | aacdce6e88 | > >> > +-----------------------+------------+------------+ > >> > | boot_successes | 20 | 10 | > >> > | early-boot-hang | 1 | | > >> > | boot_failures | 0 | 5 | > >> > | PANIC:early_exception | 0 | 5 | > >> > +-----------------------+------------+------------+ > >> > > >> > > >> > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000036fffffff] usable > >> > [ 0.000000] bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled > >> > [ 0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active > >> > PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff81899e6b error 9 cr2 ffffffffff240000 > >> > [ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-gc5221e6 #1 > >> > [ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 ffffffff82203d30 ffffffff819f0a6e 00000000000003f8 > >> > [ 0.000000] ffffffffff240000 ffffffff82203e18 ffffffff823701b0 ffffffff82511401 > >> > [ 0.000000] 0000000000000000 0000000000000ba3 0000000000000000 ffffffffff240000 > >> > [ 0.000000] Call Trace: > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff819f0a6e>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x68 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823701b0>] early_idt_handler+0x90/0xb7 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81899e6b>] ? dmi_table+0x3f/0x94 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff81899e42>] ? dmi_table+0x16/0x94 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c80da>] ? dmi_save_one_device+0x81/0x81 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c7eff>] dmi_walk_early+0x44/0x69 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c88a2>] dmi_present+0x180/0x1ff > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823c8ab3>] dmi_scan_machine+0x144/0x191 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82370702>] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82377f52>] setup_arch+0x490/0xc73 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff819eef73>] ? printk+0x4d/0x4f > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82370b90>] start_kernel+0x9c/0x43f > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff82370120>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x120/0x120 > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823704a2>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c > >> > [ 0.000000] [<ffffffff823705df>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x13b/0x14a > >> > [ 0.000000] RIP 0x4 > >> > > >> > >> This is most puzzling. Could anyone decode the exception? > >> This looks like the non-EFI path through dmi_scan_machine(), which > >> calls dmi_present() /after/ calling dmi_smbios3_present(), which > >> apparently has not found the _SM3_ header tag. Or could the call stack > >> be inaccurate? > >> > >> Anyway, it would be good to know the exact type of the platform, > > > > It's a Nehalem-EP machine, wht 16 CPU and 12G memory. > > > >> and > >> perhaps we could find out if there is an inadvertent _SM3_ tag > >> somewhere in the 0xF0000 - 0xFFFFF range? > > > > Sorry, how? > > > > That's not a brand new machine, so I suppose there wouldn't be a > SMBIOS 3.0 header lurking in there. > > Anyway, if you are in a position to try things, could you apply this > > --- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c > +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c > @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void) > memset(buf, 0, 16); > for (q = p; q < p + 0x10000; q += 16) { > memcpy_fromio(buf + 16, q, 16); > - if (!dmi_smbios3_present(buf) || !dmi_present(buf)) { > + if (!dmi_present(buf)) { > dmi_available = 1; > dmi_early_unmap(p, 0x10000); > goto out; > > and try again? kernel boots perfectly with this patch applied. --yliu > That is the only change that is relevant to the non-EFI > code path which this machine appears to take, so if this fixes things, > that would be valuable information even if it doesn't tell us exactly > what is going wrong. > > Thanks, > Ard. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
--- a/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c @@ -617,7 +617,7 @@ void __init dmi_scan_machine(void) memset(buf, 0, 16); for (q = p; q < p + 0x10000; q += 16) { memcpy_fromio(buf + 16, q, 16); - if (!dmi_smbios3_present(buf) || !dmi_present(buf)) { + if (!dmi_present(buf)) { dmi_available = 1; dmi_early_unmap(p, 0x10000); goto out;