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DateTue, 5 Aug 2008 14:15:56 +0200
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: [patch 20/62] x86, suspend, acpi: enter Big Real Mode
On Wed 2008-07-30 16:58:31, Greg KH wrote:
> 2.6.26 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> us know.
> 
> ------------------
> From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> 
> Commit 3bf2e77453a87c22eb57ed4926760ac131c84459 upstream
> 
> x86, suspend, acpi: enter Big Real Mode
> 
> The explanation for recent video BIOS suspend quirk failures is that
> the VESA BIOS expects to be entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff)
> instead of ordinary Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffff).
> 
> This patch changes the segment descriptors to Big Real Mode instead.
> 
> The segment descriptor registers (what Intel calls "segment cache") is
> always active.  The only thing that changes based on CR0.PE is how it is
> *loaded* and the interpretation of the CS flags.
> 
> The segment descriptor registers contain of the following sub-registers:
> selector (the "visible" part), base, limit and flags.  In protected mode
> or long mode, they are loaded from descriptors (or fs.base or gs.base can
> be manipulated directly in long mode.)  In real mode, the only thing
> changed by a segment register load is the selector and the base, where the
> base <- selector << 4.  In particular, *the limit and the flags are not
> changed*.
> 
> As far as the handling of the CS flags: a code segment cannot be writable
> in protected mode, whereas it is "just another segment" in real mode, so
> there is some kind of quirk that kicks in for this when CR0.PE <- 0.  I'm
> not sure if this is accomplished by actually changing the cs.flags register
> or just changing the interpretation; it might be something that is
> CPU-specific.  In particular, the Transmeta CPUs had an explicit "CS is
> writable if you're in real mode" override, so even if you had loaded CS
> with an execute-only segment it'd be writable (but not readable!) on return
> to real mode.  I'm not at all sure if that is how other CPUs behave.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

ACK.

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