[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 153/281] x86/efi: Disable runtime services on kexec kernel if booted with efi=old_map

From: Sai Praneeth [ Upstream commit 4e52797d2efefac3271abdc54439a3435abd77b9 ] Booting kexec kernel with "efi=old_map" in kernel command line hits kernel panic as shown below. BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 88007fe78070 IP: virt_efi_set_variable.part.7+0x63/0x1b0 PGD 7ea

Re: [RFC] arm64: extra entries in /proc/iomem for kexec

On 03/14/2018 01:59 PM, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: In the last couples of months, there were some problems reported [1],[2] around arm64 kexec/kdump. Where those phenomenon look different, the root cause would be that kexec/kdump doesn't take into account crucial "reserved" regions of system memory a

[PATCH 4.9 052/241] x86/boot/32: Defer resyncing initial_page_table until per-cpu is set up

4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Andy Lutomirski [ Upstream commit 23b2a4ddebdd17fad265b4bb77256c2e4ec37dee ] The x86 smpboot trampoline expects initial_page_table to have the GDT mapped. If the GDT ends up in a virtually ma

[PATCH 4.9 211/241] x86/boot/32: Fix UP boot on Quark and possibly other platforms

4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- From: Andy Lutomirski commit d2b6dc61a8dd3c429609b993778cb54e75a5c5f0 upstream. This partially reverts commit: 23b2a4ddebdd17f ("x86/boot/32: Defer resyncing initial_page_table until per-cpu is s

Re: [PATCH 0/9] KEYS: Blacklisting & UEFI database load

On Sun, 2018-03-11 at 11:20 +0800, joeyli wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 07:28:37AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-03-07 at 08:18 -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote: > > > On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 15:05 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > what's the status of this please? Distributors (I checked S