Re: [bug #36532] boot in EFI mode (x86_64) fails on some systems

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 27.06.2012 21:59, address@hidden wrote:

>>
>> Well, this works, too (on top of HEAD from 7 june).
>>
>>
>> --- ../../grub/grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c 2012-05-31
>> 12:59:19.000000000 -0400
>> +++ grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c    2012-06-12 20:47:51.455718055 -0400
>> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ find_efi_mmap_size (void)
>>
>>    /* Increase the size a bit for safety, because GRUB allocates more
>> on
>>       later, and EFI itself may allocate more.  */
>> -  mmap_size += (1 << 12);
>> +  mmap_size += (3 << 12);
>>
>>    mmap_size = page_align (mmap_size);
>>    return mmap_size;
> 
> Vladimir,
> 
> The 2.00rc1 version of grub2 still doesn't fix the efi memory map buffer size 
> I've been working on (though I can see you are now allocating the efi memory 
> map buffer very shortly before you are calling 
> grub_efi_finish_boot_services()).
> 
> Increasing the mmap_size in find_efi_mmap_size()--as in the patch immediately 
> above this text--does fix the problem.  Even adding (2 << 12) (instead of (1 
> << 12)) to the mmap_size will work on the system I'm testing with.
> 

I've changed it to 3. Thanks. It's annoying that even such simple
operations as we have between find_efi_mmap and finish drastically
increase memory map size.

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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