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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-21 13:06:49 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-21 13:06:49 -0700 |
commit | 781c5a67f152c17c3e4a9ed9647f8c0be6ea5ae9 (patch) | |
tree | 5cba2f98482e4612e4daf8e57e4e50a24a273fe9 /arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | |
parent | e990c77d06dbacc8e5c5edd2c4a1005d318a4fa6 (diff) | |
parent | 9ea77bdb39b62c9bf9fd3cdd1c25a9420bccd380 (diff) |
Merge branch 'x86-bios-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-bios-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, bios: Make the x86 early memory reservation a kernel option
x86, bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 106 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 76 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index df770ad99b3..6154701a5fd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -619,79 +619,7 @@ static __init void reserve_ibft_region(void) reserve_early_overlap_ok(addr, addr + size, "ibft"); } -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K -static int __init dmi_low_memory_corruption(const struct dmi_system_id *d) -{ - printk(KERN_NOTICE - "%s detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.\n", - d->ident); - - e820_update_range(0, 0x10000, E820_RAM, E820_RESERVED); - sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map); - - return 0; -} -#endif - -/* List of systems that have known low memory corruption BIOS problems */ -static struct dmi_system_id __initdata bad_bios_dmi_table[] = { -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "AMI BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "American Megatrends Inc."), - }, - }, - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "Phoenix BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Phoenix Technologies"), - }, - }, - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "Phoenix/MSC BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_BIOS_VENDOR, "Phoenix/MSC"), - }, - }, - /* - * AMI BIOS with low memory corruption was found on Intel DG45ID and - * DG45FC boards. - * It has a different DMI_BIOS_VENDOR = "Intel Corp.", for now we will - * match only DMI_BOARD_NAME and see if there is more bad products - * with this vendor. - */ - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "AMI BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "DG45ID"), - }, - }, - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "AMI BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "DG45FC"), - }, - }, - /* - * The Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 has DMI_BIOS_VENDOR = "Dell Inc.", so - * match on the product name. - */ - { - .callback = dmi_low_memory_corruption, - .ident = "Phoenix BIOS", - .matches = { - DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Inspiron 1012"), - }, - }, -#endif - {} -}; +static unsigned reserve_low = CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW << 10; static void __init trim_bios_range(void) { @@ -699,8 +627,14 @@ static void __init trim_bios_range(void) * A special case is the first 4Kb of memory; * This is a BIOS owned area, not kernel ram, but generally * not listed as such in the E820 table. + * + * This typically reserves additional memory (64KiB by default) + * since some BIOSes are known to corrupt low memory. See the + * Kconfig help text for X86_RESERVE_LOW. */ - e820_update_range(0, PAGE_SIZE, E820_RAM, E820_RESERVED); + e820_update_range(0, ALIGN(reserve_low, PAGE_SIZE), + E820_RAM, E820_RESERVED); + /* * special case: Some BIOSen report the PC BIOS * area (640->1Mb) as ram even though it is not. @@ -710,6 +644,28 @@ static void __init trim_bios_range(void) sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map); } +static int __init parse_reservelow(char *p) +{ + unsigned long long size; + + if (!p) + return -EINVAL; + + size = memparse(p, &p); + + if (size < 4096) + size = 4096; + + if (size > 640*1024) + size = 640*1024; + + reserve_low = size; + + return 0; +} + +early_param("reservelow", parse_reservelow); + /* * Determine if we were loaded by an EFI loader. If so, then we have also been * passed the efi memmap, systab, etc., so we should use these data structures @@ -865,8 +821,6 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p) dmi_scan_machine(); - dmi_check_system(bad_bios_dmi_table); - /* * VMware detection requires dmi to be available, so this * needs to be done after dmi_scan_machine, for the BP. |