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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Yinghai Lu 6d7942dc2a x86: fix 64k corruption-check
Impact: fix boot crash

Need to exit early if the addr is far above 64k.

The crash got exposed by:

  78a8b35: x86: make e820_update_range() handle small range update

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BC2279.2030101@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-15 07:03:15 +01:00
Jan Beulich 5c0e6f035d x86: fix code paths used by update_mptable
Impact: fix crashes under Xen due to unrobust e820 code

find_e820_area_size() must return a properly distinguishable and
out-of-bounds value when it fails, and -1UL does not meet that
criteria on i386/PAE. Additionally, callers of the function must
check against that value.

early_reserve_e820() should be prepared for the region found to be
outside of the addressable range on 32-bits.

e820_update_range_map() should not blindly update e820, but should do
all it work on the map it got a pointer passed for (which in 50% of the
cases is &e820_saved). It must also not call e820_add_region(), as that
again acts on e820 unconditionally.

The issues were found when trying to make this option work in our Xen
kernel (i.e. where some of the silent assumptions made in the code
would not hold).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B9171B.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 02:37:19 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven b43d196c4d x86: corruption-check: some post-move cleanups
Impact: cleanup

now that the code is moved and converted to a work queue,
there's some minor cleanups that can be done.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 18:09:45 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 304e629bf4 x86: corruption check: run the corruption checks from a work queue
Impact: change the implementation of the debug feature

the periodic corruption checks are better off run from a work queue; there's
nothing time critical about them and this way the amount of
interrupt-context work is reduced.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 18:09:45 +01:00
Arjan van de Ven 6784f7d0a5 x86: corruption check: move the corruption checks into their own file
Impact: cleanup

The corruption check code is rather sizable and it's likely to grow over
time when we add checks for more types of corruptions (there's a few
candidates in kerneloops.org that I want to add checks for)... so lets move
it to its own file

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-27 18:09:44 +01:00