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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
2008/8/29 Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:
>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>
>> Out of current discussion I tried using s2ram on patched kernel (I did
>> not try s2ram earlier, my problem was (un)plugging HDMI - some ACPI
>> code probably).
>>
>> Corruption output is quite huge, I attached it to bug report:
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=17526
>
> Not quite the output we were expecting! I've not got around to trying
> it yet, so beware, but I think Jeremy's patch needs the following on top.
> Or you may prefer to wait until one of us reports that it is now working
> as intended.
>
> --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2008-08-29 11:17:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c 2008-08-29 11:19:24.000000000 +0100
> @@ -636,11 +636,12 @@ void check_for_bios_corruption(void)
> unsigned long *addr = __va(scan_areas[i].addr);
> unsigned long size = scan_areas[i].size;
>
> - for(; size; addr++, size--) {
> + for(; size; addr++, size -= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
> if (!*addr)
> continue;
> printk(KERN_ERR "Corrupted low memory at %p (%lx phys) = %08lx\n",
> addr, __pa(addr), *addr);
> + *addr = 0;
> corruption = 1;
> }
> }

I tried your patch anyway (after applying Jeremy's patch of course)
and it doesn't seem to work. The only output is:
scanning 2 areas for BIOS corruption
after using s2ram. I do not get any
Corrupted low memory at*

--
Rafał Miłecki
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