Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Stuart Hayes <> | Subject | [PATCH] dell_rbu: make firmware payload memory uncachable | Date | Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:05:52 -0500 |
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The dell_rbu driver takes firmware update payloads and puts them in memory so the system BIOS can find them after a reboot. This sometimes fails (though rarely), because the memory containing the payload is in the CPU cache but never gets written back to main memory before the system is rebooted (CPU cache contents are lost on reboot).
With this patch, the payload memory will be changed to uncachable to ensure that the payload is actually in main memory before the system is rebooted.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com> --- Note that there is no maintainer for this driver, so I'd be grateful if someone could apply this... thank you!
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c index 2f452f1..6b84814 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c @@ -180,6 +180,11 @@ static int create_packet(void *data, size_t length) invalid_addr_packet_array[idx++] = packet_data_temp_buf; packet_data_temp_buf = NULL; } + /* + * set to uncachable or it may never get written back before + * reboot + */ + set_memory_uc(packet_data_temp_buf, 1 << (ordernum)); } spin_lock(&rbu_data.lock); @@ -349,6 +354,7 @@ static void packet_empty_list(void) * to make sure there are no stale RBU packets left in memory */ memset(newpacket->data, 0, rbu_data.packetsize); + set_memory_wb(newpacket->data, (1 << newpacket->ordernum)); free_pages((unsigned long) newpacket->data, newpacket->ordernum); kfree(newpacket);
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