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Subject[PATCH][RFC] Possible PnP BIOS GPF Solution for Sony VAIO and other laptops
The PnP BIOS may be wandering into segement 0x40.  If that is the case, this 
patch should fix the problem. I do not have a buggy system so I cannot test
this patch but I'd be intersted to hear the results. If you have a system that
has caused pnpbios problems in the past, I recommend you try this patch. If it
works, the system will not panic on startup. This patch is against 2.5.59 and
separate from my other recent patches.


--- a/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c Fri Jan 31 16:59:57 2003
+++ b/drivers/pnp/pnpbios/core.c Fri Jan 31 17:01:07 2003
@@ -142,11 +142,13 @@
set_limit(cpu_gdt_table[cpu][(selname) >> 3], size); \
} while(0)

+static struct desc_struct bad_bios_desc = { 0, 0x00409200 };
+
/*
* At some point we want to use this stack frame pointer to unwind
- * after PnP BIOS oopses.
+ * after PnP BIOS oopses.
*/
-
+
u32 pnp_bios_fault_esp;
u32 pnp_bios_fault_eip;
u32 pnp_bios_is_utter_crap = 0;
@@ -160,6 +162,8 @@
{
unsigned long flags;
u16 status;
+ struct desc_struct save_desc_40;
+ int cpu;

/*
* PnP BIOSes are generally not terribly re-entrant.
@@ -168,6 +172,10 @@
if(pnp_bios_is_utter_crap)
return PNP_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED;

+ cpu = get_cpu();
+ save_desc_40 = cpu_gdt_table[cpu][0x40 / 8];
+ cpu_gdt_table[cpu][0x40 / 8] = bad_bios_desc;
+
/* On some boxes IRQ's during PnP BIOS calls are deadly. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&pnp_bios_lock, flags);

@@ -207,6 +215,9 @@
: "memory"
);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pnp_bios_lock, flags);
+
+ cpu_gdt_table[cpu][0x40 / 8] = save_desc_40;
+ put_cpu();

/* If we get here and this is set then the PnP BIOS faulted on us. */
if(pnp_bios_is_utter_crap)
@@ -1431,7 +1442,7 @@
* from devices that are can only be static such as
* those controlled by the "system" driver.
*/
- if (pnp_bios_get_dev_node(&nodenum, (char )1, node))
+ if (pnp_bios_get_dev_node(&nodenum, (char )0, node))
break;
nodes_got++;
dev = pnpbios_kmalloc(sizeof (struct pnp_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -1563,6 +1574,8 @@
pnp_bios_callpoint.segment = PNP_CS16;
pnp_bios_hdr = check;

+ set_base(bad_bios_desc, __va((unsigned long)0x40 << 4));
+ _set_limit((char *)&bad_bios_desc, 4095 - (0x40 << 4));
for(i=0; i < NR_CPUS; i++)
{
Q2_SET_SEL(i, PNP_CS32, &pnp_bios_callfunc, 64 * 1024);
-
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