Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Drake <> | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:14:12 +0800 | Subject | Early EFI-related boot freeze in parse_setup_data() |
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Hi,
We're working with a new consumer MiniPC based on AMD E1-7010.
It fails to boot Linux when booting in EFI mode - it hangs with nothing on screen. earlycon=efifb doesn't show any output.
Looking closer, I was able to confirm that we reach EFI ExitBootServices() via efi_printk in the efi stub. But you can't use EFI's console functionality after that point, so I then resorted to inserting calls to:
idt_invalidate(NULL); __asm__ __volatile__("int3");
throughout the early boot code that follows in order to force a system reset. That way I could deduce if execution was reaching that point (system reset) or not (system hang as before). As a side-question I'd be curious if there is any better way to debug such early boot failures on consumer x86 hardware without a serial port...
Anyway, the system freeze occurs in parse_setup_data(), specifically:
data = early_memremap(pa_data, sizeof(*data)); data_len = data->len + sizeof(struct setup_data);
Dereferencing data->len causes the system to hang. I presume it triggers an exception handler due to some kind of invalid memory access.
By returning early in that function, boot continues basically fine. So I could then log the details: pa_data has value 0x892bb018 and early_memremap returns address 0xffffffffff200018. Accessing just a single byte at that address causes the system hang.
This original pa_data value (from boot_params.hdr.setup_data) was set by the EFI stub in setup_efi_pci(). I confirmed that the same 0x892bb018 value is set there, it is not being corrupted along the way.
Any suggestions for how to diagnose further?
dmesg output: https://gist.github.com/dsd/199bed7b590e90efdf73f9f6384ca551
Thanks Daniel
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