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    x86/boot: Disable RSDP parsing temporarily · 36f0c423
    Borislav Petkov authored
    The original intention to move RDSP parsing very early, before KASLR
    does its ranges selection, was to accommodate movable memory regions
    machines (CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE) to still be able to do memory
    hotplug.
    
    However, that broke kexec'ing a kernel on EFI machines because depending
    on where the EFI systab was mapped, on at least one machine it isn't
    present in the kexec mapping of the second kernel, leading to a triple
    fault in the early code.
    
    Fixing this properly requires significantly involved surgery and we
    cannot allow ourselves to do that, that close to the merge window.
    
    So disable the RSDP parsing code temporarily until it is fixed properly
    in the next release cycle.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Cc: Chao Fan <fanc.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
    Cc: kasong@redhat.com
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: msys.mizuma@gmail.com
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
    Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190419141952.GE10324@zn.tnic
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