linux/arch/x86
Ingo Molnar 5649b7c303 x86: add DMI quirk for AMI BIOS which corrupts address 0xc000 during resume
Alan Jenkins and Andy Wettstein reported a suspend/resume memory
corruption bug and extensively documented it here:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237

The bug is that the BIOS overwrites 1K of memory at 0xc000 physical,
without registering it in e820 as reserved or giving the kernel any
idea about this.

Detect AMI BIOSen and reserve that 1K.

We paint this bug around with a very broad brush (reserving that 1K on all
AMI BIOS systems), as the bug was extremely hard to find and needed several
weeks and lots of debugging and patching.

The bug was found via the CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION=y debug feature,
if similar bugs are suspected then this feature can be enabled on other
systems as well to scan low memory for corrupted memory.

Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Reported-by: Andy Wettstein <ajw1980@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-16 09:43:07 +02:00
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boot x86: boot: stub out unimplemented CPU feature words 2008-09-05 16:13:44 -07:00
configs x86: update defconfigs 2008-08-27 08:14:17 +02:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes-x86-32: Remove unused return code 2008-04-21 10:19:21 +08:00
ia32 tracehook: exec 2008-07-26 12:00:08 -07:00
kernel x86: add DMI quirk for AMI BIOS which corrupts address 0xc000 during resume 2008-09-16 09:43:07 +02:00
kvm KVM: MMU: Fix torn shadow pte 2008-08-25 17:24:27 +03:00
lguest lguest: set max_pfn_mapped, growl loudly at Yinghai Lu 2008-07-29 09:58:31 +10:00
lib x86: msr: propagate errors from smp_call_function_single() 2008-08-25 17:45:48 -07:00
mach-default x86: add ->pre_time_init to x86_quirks 2008-07-20 09:25:52 +02:00
mach-es7000 x86: move the last Dprintk instance to pr_debug() 2008-07-21 21:58:34 +02:00
mach-generic x86: make generic arch support NUMAQ, fix 2008-07-08 10:35:45 +02:00
mach-rdc321x removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
mach-voyager Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:55:59 +02:00
math-emu x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/math-emu/reg_constant 2008-06-18 15:00:13 +02:00
mm x86: add periodic corruption check 2008-09-07 17:40:00 +02:00
oprofile x86: fix oprofile + hibernation badness 2008-08-20 16:18:31 +02:00
pci Un-break printk strings in x86 PCI probing code 2008-09-02 10:38:28 -07:00
power x86: fix i486 suspend to disk CR4 oops 2008-08-18 08:50:19 +02:00
vdso Merge branches 'x86/urgent', 'x86/amd-iommu', 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/core', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/gart', 'x86/kprobes', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/modules', 'x86/nmi', 'x86/pat', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup', 'x86/step', 'x86/unify-pci', 'x86/uv', 'x86/xen' and 'xen-64bit' into x86/for-linus 2008-07-21 16:37:17 +02:00
video x86: video/fbdev.c: add MODULE_LICENSE 2008-05-04 20:04:46 +02:00
xen x86, xen: Use native_pte_flags instead of native_pte_val for .pte_flags 2008-09-06 20:13:58 +02:00
Kconfig x86: default corruption check to off, but put parameter default in Kconfig 2008-09-07 17:40:02 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: disable static NOPLs on 32 bits 2008-09-08 11:35:43 -07:00
Kconfig.debug x86: Fix help message for STRICT_DEVMEM config option 2008-07-21 13:04:08 -07:00
Makefile x86, RDC321x: add to mach-default 2008-07-26 13:51:46 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu