f0 ESP: c189fea8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c189e000 task=c18bbe60 task.ti=c189e000) Stack: 80000200 ff108000 00000000 c189ff00 00038714 00000000 00000000 c189fed0 c104f8ca 00038714 00000000 00038715 00000000 00000000 00038715 00000000 00000010 38715000 c189ff48 c1025aff 38715000 00000000 00000010 00000000 Call Trace: [] ? page_is_ram+0x1a/0x40 [] reserve_memtype+0xdf/0x2f0 [] set_memory_uc+0x49/0xa0 [] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x1c2/0x3aa [] start_kernel+0x291/0x2f2 [] ? loglevel+0x1b/0x1b [] i386_start_kernel+0xbf/0xc8 The only time we can call set_memory_uc() for a memory region is when it is part of the direct kernel mapping. For the case where we ioremap a memory region we must leave it alone. This patch reimplements the fix from e8c7106280a3 ("x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid") which was reverted in e1ad783b12ec because it caused a regression on some MacBooks (they hung at boot). The regression was caused because the commit only marked EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES_DATA as E820_RESERVED_EFI, when it should have marked all regions that have the EFI_MEMORY_RUNTIME attribute. Despite first impressions, it's not possible to use ioremap_cache() to map all cached memory regions on CONFIG_X86_64 because of the way that the memory map might be configured as detailed in the following bug report, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748516 e.g. some of the EFI memory regions *need* to be mapped as part of the direct kernel mapping. Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming Cc: Matthew Garrett Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Keith Packard Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350649546-23541-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Y3ѵœ;x