From c549e71d073a6e9a4847497344db28a784061455 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:26 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86, setup: ACPI 3, BIOS workaround for E820-probing code Impact: ACPI 3 spec compliance, BIOS bug workaround The ACPI 3 spec added another field to the E820 buffer -- which is backwards incompatible, since it contains a validity bit. Furthermore, there has been at least one report of a BIOS which assumes that the buffer it is pointed at is the same buffer as for the previous E820 call. Therefore, read the data into a temporary buffer and copy the standard part of it if and only if the valid bit is set. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/boot/memory.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/memory.c b/arch/x86/boot/memory.c index fcdb10add9c..d5d2360763d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/memory.c +++ b/arch/x86/boot/memory.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ * * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds * Copyright 2007 rPath, Inc. - All Rights Reserved + * Copyright 2009 Intel Corporation; author H. Peter Anvin * * This file is part of the Linux kernel, and is made available under * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. @@ -16,6 +17,11 @@ #define SMAP 0x534d4150 /* ASCII "SMAP" */ +struct e820_ext_entry { + struct e820entry std; + u32 ext_flags; +} __attribute__((packed)); + static int detect_memory_e820(void) { int count = 0; @@ -23,9 +29,10 @@ static int detect_memory_e820(void) u32 size, id, edi; u8 err; struct e820entry *desc = boot_params.e820_map; + static struct e820_ext_entry buf; /* static so it is zeroed */ do { - size = sizeof(struct e820entry); + size = sizeof buf; /* Important: %edx and %esi are clobbered by some BIOSes, so they must be either used for the error output @@ -33,8 +40,8 @@ static int detect_memory_e820(void) is something out there clobbering %ebp and %edi, too. */ asm("pushl %%ebp; int $0x15; popl %%ebp; setc %0" : "=d" (err), "+b" (next), "=a" (id), "+c" (size), - "=D" (edi), "=m" (*desc) - : "D" (desc), "d" (SMAP), "a" (0xe820) + "=D" (edi), "+m" (buf) + : "D" (&buf), "d" (SMAP), "a" (0xe820) : "esi"); /* BIOSes which terminate the chain with CF = 1 as opposed @@ -53,8 +60,14 @@ static int detect_memory_e820(void) break; } + /* ACPI 3.0 added the extended flags support. If bit 0 + in the extended flags is zero, we're supposed to simply + ignore the entry -- a backwards incompatible change! */ + if (size > 20 && !(buf.ext_flags & 1)) + continue; + + *desc++ = buf.std; count++; - desc++; } while (next && count < ARRAY_SIZE(boot_params.e820_map)); return boot_params.e820_entries = count; -- 2.32.0.93.g670b81a890