From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751776AbcFNHgd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2016 03:36:33 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:35224 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751701AbcFNHgc (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jun 2016 03:36:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:36:27 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Matt Fleming Cc: Lukas Wunner , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas , Yinghai Lu , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/quirks: Add early quirk to reset Apple AirPort card Message-ID: <20160614073627.GA8576@gmail.com> References: <48d0972ac82a53d460e5fce77a07b2560db95203.1465690253.git.lukas@wunner.de> <20160612114902.GA15940@gmail.com> <20160612123726.GA20653@wunner.de> <20160613144406.GF2658@codeblueprint.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160613144406.GF2658@codeblueprint.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Matt Fleming wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun, at 02:37:26PM, Lukas Wunner wrote: > > > > Resetting the card solves the problem at the root and fixes both, > > the spurious interrupts and the memory corruption. > > It also avoids the need to figure out exactly which Boot Services > regions may have become corrupt. > > This would be necessary since you can't keep all Boot Services regions > reserved because those regions can add up to be many gigabytes in > size, even on relatively low-end laptops that don't have huge amounts > of RAM to begin with. > > Freeing Boot Services regions is pretty important. Ok! Thanks, Ingo