Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:42:46 +0200 | From | "Rafał Miłecki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption |
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2008/8/29 Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>: > 2008/8/29 Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>: >> Here's my version of Jeremy's patch, that I've now tested on my machines, >> as x86_32 and as x86_64. It addresses none of the points Alan Cox made, >> and it stays silent for me, even after suspend+resume, unless I actually >> introduce corruption myself. Omits Jeremy's check in fault.c, but does >> a check every minute, so should soon detect Rafał's HDMI corruption >> without any need to suspend+resume. > > Your periodic test works fine: > > Corrupted low memory at ffff88000000be9c (be9c phys) = b02a0004 > <IRQ> [<ffffffff8020fc9b>] check_for_bios_corruption+0x93/0x9f > [<ffffffff8020fca7>] ? periodic_check_for_corruption+0x0/0x25 > [<ffffffff8020fcb0>] periodic_check_for_corruption+0x9/0x25 > > By the way I confirmed this bug on Sony Vaio FW11M (my one is FW11S). > Probably more machines from FW11* are affected.
If this patch is known to work fine for Sony Vaio FW* and Alan's machine, could it go mainline somehow?
-- Rafał Miłecki
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