On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 01:04:09PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

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Ok, so what patch should be reverted?  I'm seeing other reports of
problems all around this same area, but I can't figure out exactly what
to do.

Are any of those reports public?  If so can you point me at them, I'm
curious if the symptoms match up.

I don't think we want to revert anything.  I think you should pull in
edc3b9129cec and at least the first three patches that Ben listed:

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

the first patch takes a bit of massaging (mostly because some of it is
already touched by 02ff2769edbc, which keeps the changes from
edc3b9129cec, and so we can drop a good bit when applying).  The other
three apply cleanly.

I'm currently testing that and can send you the state of my tree in a bit.

Sounds great. I'll hold off with sending my RFT series and wait for your
test results. I think we'll also need d367cef0a7f0c6 ("x86/mm/pat: Fix
boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU").

Thanks,
Guenter