On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:46:16PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: > >> I cannot reproduce it on x86_64 (also with mm-debug enabled) and I do > >> not know how to load standalone image on ppc; is it possible to use QEMU > >> to run ARM64 (I assume you have it)? If not what are options to test it? > >> > >> Anyway, there was one problem I fixed later (although I did not get any > >> issue before as well), I attach updated version. Thank you for testing! > > > > I can confirm that: > > 1) The first patch exhibits no bad behaviour on QEMU [1]. > > 2) The second patch exhibits no bad behaviour on either QEMU nor HW. > > > > This still generates fixups in efidisk for each call though. > > Of course; it was intended to add framework for direct-to-cache IO, it > did not change alignment.
Sure. > > Could I rework my disk->malloc patch on top of this for 2.02 release? > > Of course! Splendid. Coming up. > Not sure whether it is 2.02 material though, but we can keep > it in next then. Hopefully 2.03 won't take so long :) Well, it is a <=2x slowdown, and not just on platforms that previously broke, but also on any platforms that specified alignment that was not previously obeyed (but still worked). > > / > > Leif > > > > [1] qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt -bios > > QEMU_EFI.fd -nographic -hda fat:fat/ > > With QEMU_EFI.fd from > > http://releases.linaro.org/components/kernel/uefi-linaro/16.02/debug/qemu64/ > > And fat/ being a directory holding the image generated with > > grub-mkstandalone. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Grub-devel mailing list > > Grub-devel@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
