> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:27 PM > To: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>; Ghannam, Yazen > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Matt Fleming > <[email protected]>; Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>; Andrew > Morton <[email protected]>; Andy Lutomirski > <[email protected]>; Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>; Ard Biesheuvel > <[email protected]>; Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>; Brian Gerst > <[email protected]>; Dave Jones <[email protected]>; Denys > Vlasenko <[email protected]>; H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>; Linus > Torvalds <[email protected]>; Peter Zijlstra > <[email protected]>; Sai Praneeth Prakhya > <[email protected]>; Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>; > Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>; Toshi Kani <[email protected]>; > [email protected]; Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>; Ghannam, > Yazen <[email protected]>; Alex Thorlton <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 05/27] x86/efi: Build our own page table structures > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:43:49PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 16:59 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me > know. > > > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > From: Matt Fleming <[email protected]> > > > > > > commit 67a9108ed4313b85a9c53406d80dc1ae3f8c3e36 upstream. > > [...] > > > > It looks like this will cause regressions unless you also apply: > > > > 21cdb6b56843 x86/mm: Page align the '_end' symbol to avoid pfn > conversion bugs > > b61a76f8850d x86/efi: Map RAM into the identity page table for mixed > mode > > 753b11ef8e92 x86/efi: Setup separate EFI page tables in kexec paths > > > > and possibly also: > > > > 08914f436bdd x86/platform/UV: Bring back the call to map_low_mmrs in > uv_system_init > > 683ad8092cd2 x86/efi: Fix 7-parameter efi_call()s > > 80e75596079f efi: Convert efi_call_virt() to efi_call_virt_pointer() > > d1be84a232e3 x86/uv: Update uv_bios_call() to use efi_call_virt_pointer() > > Ugh, that's a mess. Yazen is the one who reported this patch, and 2 > others, were needed to resolve an issue on their hardware. > > Yazen, any thoughts here? Should I just revert the 3 patches, or do you > also feel I need all 7 of these to ensure everything works properly? >
I think it's okay to revert the 3 patches. Thanks, Yazen
