Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 654665
EFI/UEFI page table initialization is incorrect for x86_64 in physical mode.
Last modified: 2011-05-11 13:24:36 EDT
Description of problem: EFI/UEFI page table initialization in commit 19774aa25f2127f47f38f280f4bd44d7e156771c uses EFI's memory descriptor type like an attribute mask. The type field of the memory descriptor is an enumerated type. This incorrect discrimination of type results in nearly all types of EFI memory descriptors being accessible from EFI. This was not the intent of the initialization routine efi_pagetable_init. Only EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_CODE and EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA pte entries should be constructed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.0 How reproducible: Any x86_64 EFI/UEFI booted machine. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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Patch(es) available on kernel-2.6.32-89.el6
Any plan for 6.0.z? Recently I noticed that kdump did not work on Fujitsu server without this patch when the server has large memory(1TB memory). I think this patch(and also bz668825) is necessary for 6.0.z.
(In reply to comment #8) > Any plan for 6.0.z? Recently I noticed that kdump did not work on Fujitsu > server without this patch when the server has large memory(1TB memory). I > think this patch(and also bz668825) is necessary for 6.0.z. bz# 664364 is what corrected Fujitsu according to testing in this bz. bz# 654665 isn't related. As for 6.0.z I would think Fujitsu can answer.
Ok, I'll ask Fujitsu about it, thanks.
> Any new updates or comments from Fujitsu on this one? Yeah, Fujitsu requested fix for 6.0.z on CASE#00412086, and it seems that RH'll provide hotfix instead of errata.