linux/arch
H. Peter Anvin 829157be59 x86: handle BIOSes which terminate e820 with CF=1 and no SMAP
The proper way to terminate the e820 chain is with %ebx == 0 on the
last legitimate memory block.  However, several BIOSes don't do that
and instead return error (CF = 1) when trying to read off the end of
the list.  For this error return, %eax doesn't necessarily return the
SMAP signature -- correctly so, since %ah should contain an error code
in this case.

To deal with some particularly broken BIOSes, we clear the entire e820
chain if the SMAP signature is missing in the middle, indicating a
plain insane e820 implementation.  However, we need to make the test
for CF = 1 before the SMAP check.

This fixes at least one HP laptop (nc6400) for which none of the
memory-probing methods (e820, e801, 88) functioned fully according to
spec.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-02-26 12:55:52 +01:00
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alpha Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
arm ARM: OMAP: Release i2c_adapter after use (Siemens SX1) 2008-02-24 20:03:41 +01:00
avr32 ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
blackfin d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path 2008-02-14 21:17:09 -08:00
cris cris: import memset.c from newlib: fixes compile error with newer (pre4.3) gcc 2008-02-14 20:58:04 -08:00
frv FRV: Change the timerfd syscalls to be the same as i386 2008-02-20 19:58:16 -08:00
h8300 h8300: defconfig update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
ia64 [IA64] Fix build for sim_defconfig 2008-02-11 13:23:46 -08:00
m32r ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68k ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
m68knommu m68knommu: fix profile timer 2008-02-14 20:58:05 -08:00
mips [MIPS] BCM47XX: Use new SSB SPROM data structure 2008-02-19 17:01:34 +00:00
mn10300 MN10300: define HZ as a config option 2008-02-23 17:12:13 -08:00
parisc Introduce path_put() 2008-02-14 21:13:33 -08:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2008-02-21 16:18:05 -08:00
ppc [POWERPC] PPC440EP Interrupt Triggering and Level Settings 2008-02-15 21:33:02 -06:00
s390 [S390] Fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_std inline assembly. 2008-02-19 15:29:35 +01:00
sh sh: Fix multiple UTLB hit on UP SH-4. 2008-02-14 14:45:08 +09:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-02-19 07:53:28 -08:00
sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-02-23 21:00:21 -08:00
um uml: fix FP register corruption 2008-02-23 17:12:15 -08:00
v850 ide: introduce HAVE_IDE 2008-02-09 10:46:40 +01:00
x86 x86: handle BIOSes which terminate e820 with CF=1 and no SMAP 2008-02-26 12:55:52 +01:00
xtensa [XTENSA] Allow debugger to modify the WINDOWBASE register. 2008-02-13 17:45:36 -08:00
.gitignore arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64 2008-01-19 21:29:39 -08:00
Kconfig Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig 2008-02-03 08:58:08 +01:00