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David Woodhouse db8be50c43 USB: Work around BIOS bugs by quiescing USB controllers earlier 
We are seeing a number of crashes in SMM, when VT-d is enabled while
'Legacy USB support' is enabled in various BIOSes.

The BIOS is supposed to indicate which addresses it uses for DMA in a
special ACPI table ("RMRR"), so that we can punch a hole for it when we
set up the IOMMU.

The problem is, as usual, that BIOS engineers are totally incompetent.
They write code which will crash if the DMA goes AWOL, and then they
either neglect to provide an RMRR table at all, or they put the wrong
addresses in it. And of course they don't do _any_ QA, since that would
take too much time away from their crack-smoking habit.

The real fix, of course, is for consumers to refuse to buy motherboards
which only have closed-source firmware available. If we had _open_
firmware, bugs like this would be easy to fix.

Since that's something I can only dream about, this patch implements an
alternative -- ensuring that the USB controllers are handed off from the
BIOS and quiesced _before_ the IOMMU is initialised. That would have
been a much better design than this RMRR nonsense in the first place, of
course. The bootloader has no business doing DMA after the OS has booted
anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-23 06:46:33 -07:00
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acpi x86: Trivial whitespace cleanups 2009-09-20 20:18:57 +02:00
amba Merge branches 'arm', 'at91', 'bcmring', 'ep93xx', 'mach-types', 'misc' and 'w90x900' into devel 2009-09-12 12:01:34 +01:00
ata trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c 2009-09-21 15:15:53 +02:00
atm
auxdisplay
base mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat 2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
bluetooth pcmcia: dtl1_cs: fix pcmcia_loop_config logic 2009-09-15 10:17:16 -07:00
cdrom const: make block_device_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
char Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
clocksource
connector
cpufreq Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2009-09-18 09:16:57 -07:00
cpuidle cpuidle: menu governor: reduce latency on exit 2009-09-22 07:17:45 -07:00
crypto
dca
dio
dma at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early() 2009-09-14 20:27:00 +02:00
edac trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:54 +02:00
eisa
firewire driver model: constify attribute groups 2009-09-15 09:50:47 -07:00
firmware mm: don't use alloc_bootmem_low() where not strictly needed 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
gpio trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c 2009-09-21 15:14:59 +02:00
gpu Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2009-09-22 07:51:28 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: applesmc: restore accelerometer and keyboard backlight on resume 2009-09-22 07:17:49 -07:00
i2c [PATCH] i2c-imx: make bus available early 2009-09-19 23:36:56 +01:00
ide Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
idle
ieee1394 drivers: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores 2009-09-02 23:07:36 -07:00
ieee802154 netdev: convert bulk of drivers to netdev_tx_t 2009-09-01 01:14:07 -07:00
infiniband trivial: fix typo "for for" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:54 +02:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
isdn Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
leds
lguest trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files 2009-09-21 15:14:55 +02:00
macintosh trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
mca
md Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
media Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
memstick const: make block_device_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
message Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
mfd drivers/mfd/ab3100-core.c: fix powerpc build error 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
misc const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
mmc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
mtd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
net trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
nubus
of
oprofile const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
parisc mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages 2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
parport
pci Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-09-16 07:49:54 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: cleanup/fixup patch for sa1100_jornada_pcmcia driver 2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
platform hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops 2009-09-14 20:26:59 +02:00
pnp pnp: add a shutdown method to pnp drivers 2009-09-22 07:17:49 -07:00
power
pps
ps3 powerpc/ps3: Workaround for flash memory I/O error 2009-09-11 11:28:00 +10:00
rapidio
regulator regulator: Voltage count for AB3100 2009-09-17 15:48:24 +02:00
rtc trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
sbus const: make block_device_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
scsi Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
serial uartlite: support shared interrupt lines 2009-09-19 13:13:38 -07:00
sh sh: Fix up simplified multi-evt handling under sparseirq. 2009-08-31 15:15:33 +09:00
sn
spi trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
ssb ssb/sdio: fix printk format warnings 2009-09-16 16:21:00 -04:00
staging Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
tc
telephony
thermal
uio Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2009-09-18 09:43:09 -07:00
usb USB: Work around BIOS bugs by quiescing USB controllers earlier 2009-09-23 06:46:33 -07:00
uwb trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
video trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons 2009-09-21 15:14:58 +02:00
virtio
vlynq
w1
watchdog [WATCHDOG] sizeof cleanup 2009-09-18 08:39:37 +00:00
xen Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
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