From: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
To: "Hugh Dickins" <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Alan Jenkins" <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>,
"Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>,
"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 21:42:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b170af450809041242n43a6ef70s47a2e3e068619af0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b170af450808291039u7d036313x49acdaec079e6213@mail.gmail.com>
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2008/8/29 RafaÅ MiÅecki <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 RafaÅ'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'smachine, could it go mainline somehow?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-04 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-28 19:52 [PATCH RFC] x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 1:49 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-08-29 3:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 9:25 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-29 10:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
2008-08-29 10:06 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-29 10:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-29 11:54 ` Rafał Miłecki
2008-08-29 12:09 ` Alan Jenkins
2008-08-29 13:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-29 16:30 ` Rafał Miłecki
2008-08-29 17:39 ` Rafał Miłecki
2008-09-04 19:42 ` Rafał Miłecki [this message]
2008-09-04 20:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-04 23:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-06 18:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-29 14:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 14:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 20:31 ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-08-30 1:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 6:20 ` Rafał Miłecki
2008-08-29 6:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-29 7:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 7:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-29 8:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 7:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 8:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-08-29 14:48 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-08 11:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-08 17:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-08 19:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-08 19:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-29 17:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-29 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
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