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x86: reserve low 64K on AMI and Phoenix BIOS boxen

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there's multiple reports about suspend/resume related low memory
corruption in this bugzilla:

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

the common pattern is that the corruption is caused by the BIOS,
and that it affects some portion of the first 64K of physical RAM.

So add a DMI quirk

This will waste 64K RAM on 'good' systems too, but without knowing
the exact nature of this BIOS memory corruption this is the safest
approach.

This might as well solve a wide range of suspend/resume breakages
under Linux.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar 2008-09-16 09:58:02 +02:00
parent 5649b7c303
commit 1e22436eba
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@ -732,10 +732,10 @@ void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void)
static int __init dmi_low_memory_corruption(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
{
printk(KERN_NOTICE
"%s detected: BIOS corrupts 0xc000, working it around.\n",
"%s detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.\n",
d->ident);
reserve_early(0xc000, 0xc400, "BIOS quirk");
reserve_early(0x0, 0x10000, "BIOS quirk");
return 0;
}
@ -749,6 +749,13 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata bad_bios_dmi_table[] = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "American Megatrends Inc."),
},
},
{
.callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption,
.ident = "Phoenix BIOS",
.matches = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Phoenix Technologies, LTD"),
},
},
{}
};