From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/quirks: Add early quirk to reset Apple AirPort card
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:49:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160612114902.GA15940@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48d0972ac82a53d460e5fce77a07b2560db95203.1465690253.git.lukas@wunner.de>
* Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrote:
> The solution is to reset the card on boot by writing to a reset bit in
> its mmio space. This must be done as an early quirk and not as a plain
> vanilla PCI quirk to successfully combat memory corruption by DMAed
> packets: Matthew Garrett found out in 2012 that the packets are written
> to EfiBootServicesData memory (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11235.html).
> This type of memory is made available to the page allocator by
> efi_free_boot_services(). [...]
Btw., would it also make sense to *not* free those pages by default, if firmware
can occasionally corrupt them? What memory size are we talking about?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-12 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-12 10:31 [PATCH v2 0/3] Reset Apple AirPort card Lukas Wunner
2016-06-12 10:31 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/quirks: Add early quirk to reset " Lukas Wunner
2016-06-12 11:49 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-06-12 12:37 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-06-13 14:44 ` Matt Fleming
2016-06-14 7:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-06-28 13:21 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-07-10 19:01 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Lukas Wunner
2016-06-12 10:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/quirks: Reintroduce scanning of secondary buses Lukas Wunner
2016-07-10 19:01 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Lukas Wunner
2016-06-12 10:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/quirks: Apply nvidia_bugs quirk only on root bus Lukas Wunner
2016-07-10 19:00 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Lukas Wunner
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