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Bug 670850

Summary:	[6.0] System reset when changing EFI variable on large memory system [rhel-6.0.z]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.0	CC:	arozansk, cward, dhoward, fhrbata, jcm, jpirko, moshiro, myamazak, pm-eus, qcai, tindoh, yugzhang
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	kernel-2.6.32-71.26.1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Invocating an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) call caused a restart or a failure to boot to occur on a system with more than 512GB of memory because the EFI page tables did not map the whole kernel space. EFI page tables used only one PGD (Page Global Directory) entry to map the kernel space; thus, virtual addresses higher than PAGE_OFFSET + 512GB could not be accessed. With this update, EFI page tables map the whole kernel space.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-05-10 18:12:11 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	664364
Bug Blocks:

Description RHEL Program Management 2011-01-19 14:33:25 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #664364 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 7 Martin Prpič 2011-05-05 08:55:12 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Invocating an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) call caused a restart or a failure to boot to occur on a system with more than 512GB of memory because the EFI page tables did not map the whole kernel space. EFI page tables used only one PGD (Page Global Directory) entry to map the kernel space; thus, virtual addresses higher than PAGE_OFFSET + 512GB could not be accessed. With this update, EFI page tables map the whole kernel space.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-10 18:12:11 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0498.html