Russ Anderson reported a boot crash with EFI and latest mainline:
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffa0000 - 00000000fffac000 (reserved)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc5-00100-gec0c15a-dirty #5
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff80849195>] early_idt_handler+0x55/0x69
[<ffffffff80313e52>] __memcpy+0x12/0xa4
[<ffffffff80859015>] efi_init+0xce/0x932
[<ffffffff80869c83>] setup_early_serial8250_console+0x2d/0x36a
[<ffffffff80238688>] __insert_resource+0x18/0xc8
[<ffffffff8084f6de>] setup_arch+0x3a7/0x632
[<ffffffff808499ed>] start_kernel+0x91/0x367
[<ffffffff80849393>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xe3/0xe7
[<ffffffff808492b0>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x0/0xe7
RIP 0x10
Such a crash is possible if the CPU in this system is a 64-bit
processor which doesn't support NX (ie, old Intel P4 -based64-bit
processors).
Certainly, if we support such processors, then we should start with
_PAGE_NX initially clear in __supported_pte_flags, and then set it once
we've established that the processor does indeed support NX. That will
prevent early_ioremap - or anything else - from trying to set it.
The simple fix is to simply call check_efer() earlier.
Reported-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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