Currently, it is possible to set a graphics VESA mode at boot time via the
vga= parameter even when no framebuffer driver supporting this is
configured. This could lead to the system booting with a black screen,
without a usable console.
Fix this problem by only allowing to set graphics modes at boot time if a
supporting framebuffer driver is configured.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Replace a magic number with a named constant in the VESA boot code.
Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
After commit 968de4f ("i386: Relocatable kernel support") IMAGE_OFFSET wasn't
actually used anymore in the (current) X86 build system. Now remove its last
traces.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: segfault on build of a 32-bit relocatable kernel
When converting arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c to support unlimited
sections, the computation of sym_strtab in walk_relocs() was done
incorrectly. This causes a segfault for some people when building the
relocatable 32-bit kernel.
Pointed out by Anonymous <pageexec@freemail.hu>.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Some BIOSes do not indicate error when trying to read from non-
existing device. Zero buffer before reading and check that we
possibly have valid MBR by looking for MBR magic.
This was fixed in different way for edd.S in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2, but lost
again when edd.S was rewritten in C.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov < arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Checkin e38e05a858 added a 9th CPU flag
word, but didn't adjust the boot code to match. This patch adds the
necessary boot code support.
Note: due to a typo in an #if statement, it didn't trigger the #error
this was supposed to do.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: None (cleanup)
SWAP_DEV is unused since 2.6.23-rc1. The comment was already incorrect
since (at least) 2.6.12.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> This is regression but old enough. Apparently I had for whatever reasons
> EDD turned off till recently. This is 2.6.27-rc5 just in case.
>
> In 2006 I fixed ghost devices due to buggy BIOS:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2
>
> Later edd.S has been rewritten in C, and apparently this patch has been
> lost:
>
> {pts/1}% ls /sys/firmware/edd
> int13_dev80/ int13_dev84/ int13_dev88/ int13_dev8c/
> int13_dev81/ int13_dev85/ int13_dev89/ int13_dev8d/
> int13_dev82/ int13_dev86/ int13_dev8a/ int13_dev8e/
> int13_dev83/ int13_dev87/ int13_dev8b/ int13_dev8f/
>
> But I have just a single disk. This is the same system BTW.
Some BIOSes do not always set CF on error before return from int13.
The patch adds additional check for status being zero (AH == 0).
This was fixed for edd.S in
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=114087765422490&w=2, but lost
again when edd.S was rewritten in C.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When building image.iso (make isoimage), use the isohybrid tool if it
exists. isohybrid is a script included with Syslinux 3.72 and higher,
which creates an image that can be booted either as a hard disk
(including removable, e.g. USB disk) or as a CD-ROM.
If isohybrid doesn't exist, then this has no effect.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words. In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered). Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The Kbuild variable "targets" is supposed to be
configuration-independent and reflect "all possible targets". This is
required to make "make clean" work properly.
Therefore, move all manipulation of "targets" as well as custom rules
out of the x86-32 ifdef statement. Only leave inside the ifdefs the
things that are genuinely configuration-dependent.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
We have had a number of cases where <asm/cpufeature.h> (and its
predecessors) have diverged substantially from the names list in
/proc/cpuinfo. This patch generates the latter from the former.
It retains the option for explicitly overriding the strings, but by
making that require a separate action it should at least be less
likely to happen.
It would be good to do a future pass and rename strings that are
gratuituously different in the kernel (/proc/cpuinfo is a userspace
interface and must remain constant.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
The CPU feature detection code in the boot code is somewhat minimal,
and doesn't include all possible CPUID words. In particular, it
doesn't contain the code for CPU feature words 2 (Transmeta),
3 (Linux-specific), 5 (VIA), or 7 (scattered). Zero them out, so we
can still set those bits as known at compile time; in particular, this
allows creating a Linux-specific NOPL flag and have it required (and
therefore resolvable at compile time) in 64-bit mode.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This recent patch
commit c3965bd151
Author: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Wed May 14 08:15:34 2008 -0700
x86 boot: proper use of ARRAY_SIZE instead of repeated E820MAX constant
caused these new warnings during a normal build:
In file included from linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/memory.c:17:
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u32':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:34: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__ilog2_u64':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:42: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls64'
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h: In function '__roundup_pow_of_two ':
linux-2.6/include/linux/log2.h:63: warning: implicit declaration of function 'fls_long'
I tried to fix them in log2.h, but it's difficult because the real mode
environment is completely different from a normal kernel environment. Instead
define an own ARRAY_SIZE macro in boot.h, similar to the other private
macros there.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up the code for crashes during SpeedStep probing on older
machines.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
yesterday I tried to reactivate my old 486 box and wanted to install a
current Linux with latest kernel on it. But it turned out that the
latest kernel does not boot because the machine crashes early in the
setup code.
After some debugging it turned out that the problem is the query_ist()
function. If this interrupt with that function is called the machine
simply locks up. It looks like a BIOS bug. Looking for a workaround for
this problem I wrote the attached patch. It checks for the CPUID
instruction and if it is not implemented it does not call the speedstep
BIOS function. As far as I know speedstep should be available since some
Pentium earliest.
Alan Cox observed that it's available since the Pentium II, so cpuid
levels 4 and 5 can be excluded altogether.
H. Peter Anvin cleaned up the code some more:
> Right in concept, but I dislike the implementation (duplication of the
> CPU detect code we already have). Could you try this patch and see if
> it works for you?
which, with a small modification to fix a build error with it the
resulting kernel boots on my machine.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Signed-off-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Comments in arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S erroneously refer to the
real mode pointer as the second and the heap area as the third argument
to decompress_kernel(). In fact, these have been the first and second
argument, respectively, since v2.6.20.
This patch corrects the comments. It introduces no code changes.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Inflate requires some dynamic memory allocation very early in the boot
process and this is provided with a set of four functions:
malloc/free/gzip_mark/gzip_release.
The old inflate code used a mark/release strategy rather than implement
free. This new version instead keeps a count on the number of outstanding
allocations and when it hits zero, it resets the malloc arena.
This allows removing all the mark and release implementations and unifying
all the malloc/free implementations.
The architecture-dependent code must define two addresses:
- free_mem_ptr, the address of the beginning of the area in which
allocations should be made
- free_mem_end_ptr, the address of the end of the area in which
allocations should be made. If set to 0, then no check is made on
the number of allocations, it just grows as much as needed
The architecture-dependent code can also provide an arch_decomp_wdog()
function call. This function will be called several times during the
decompression process, and allow to notify the watchdog that the system is
still running. If an architecture provides such a call, then it must
define ARCH_HAS_DECOMP_WDOG so that the generic inflate code calls
arch_decomp_wdog().
Work initially done by Matt Mackall, updated to a recent version of the
kernel and improved by me.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch consolidates the header guard names which are also used
externally, i.e. in .c files.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Without checking the return value of get_edd_info() and adding the
entry only in the success case, 6 devices show up under
/sys/firmware/edd/, no matter how many devices are actually present.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Merge the GDT_ENTRY() macro between arch/x86/boot/pm.c and
arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c and put the new one in
<asm-x86/segment.h>.
While we're at it, correct the bitmasks for the limit and flags. The
new version relies on using ULL constants in order to cause type
promotion rather than explicit casts; this avoids having to include
<linux/types.h> in <asm-x86/segments.h>.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch allows the disabling of decompression messages during
x86 bootup.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> Maybe it really does require the far jump immediately after setting PE
> in cr0...
>
> Hm, I don't remember this paragraph being in vol 3a, section 8.9.1
> before. Is it a recent addition?
>
> Random failures can occur if other instructions exist between steps
> 3 and 4 above. Failures will be readily seen in some situations,
> such as when instructions that reference memory are inserted between
> steps 3 and 4 while in system management mode.
>
I don't remember that, either.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build failure in maximal configurations
The 32-bit x86 relocatable kernel requires an auxilliary host program
to process the relocations. This program had a hard-coded arbitrary
limit of a 100 ELF sections. Instead of a hard-coded limit, allocate
the structures dynamically.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Apparently, DOS and possibly other legacy operating systems issued a
null command to the keyboard controller after toggling A20,
specifically "pulse output pins" with no output pins specified. This
was presumably done for synchronization reasons. This has made it
into at least the UHCI spec, and it has been found to cause
compatibility problems when "legacy USB" is enabled (which it almost
always is) to not have this byte sent.
It is *NOT* clear if any of these compatibility problems has any
effect on Linux. However, for maximum compatibility, issue this null
command after togging A20 through the KBC.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
... so it could fall back to normal numa and we'd reduce the impact of the
NUMAQ subarch.
NUMAQ depends on GENERICARCH
also decouple genericarch numa from acpi.
also make it fall back to bigsmp if apicid > 8.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch lets the early real mode code look for the 'quiet' option
on the kernel command line and pass a loadflag to the decompressor.
When this flag is set, we suppress the "Decompressing Linux... Parsing
ELF... done." messages.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Replace hardcoded offsets embedded in macros in
arch/x86/boot/compressed with proper structure references.
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Trying to boot a 64-bit kernel on a 32bit Pentium 4 gets
you an amusing message along the lines of.
"you need an x86-64, but you only have an i1586"
due to the P4 being family F. Munge it to be 686.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This patch is motivated by a subsequent patch which will allow for more
memory map entries on EFI supported systems than can be passed via the x86
legacy BIOS E820 interface. The legacy interface is limited to E820MAX ==
128 memory entries, and that "E820MAX" manifest constant was used as the
size for several arrays and loops over those arrays.
The primary change in this patch is to change code loop sizes over those
arrays from using the constant E820MAX, to using the ARRAY_SIZE() macro
evaluated for the array being looped. That way, a subsequent patch can
change the size of some of these arrays, without breaking this code.
This patch also adds a parameter to the sanitize_e820_map() routine,
which had an implicit size for the array passed it of E820MAX entries.
This new parameter explicitly passes the size of said array. Once again,
this will allow a subsequent patch to change that array size for some
calls to sanitize_e820_map() without breaking the code.
As part of enhancing the sanitize_e820_map() interface this way, I further
combined the unnecessarily distinct x86_32 and x86_64 declarations for
this routine into a single, commonly used, declaration.
This patch in itself should make no difference to the resulting kernel
binary.
[ mingo@elte.hu: merged to -tip ]
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Just moved an open brace to the previous line.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We should better use already defined flags from processor-flags.h instead
of defining own ones
[>>> object code check >>>]
original
md5sum: 129f24be6df396fb7d8bf998c01fc716 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.o
text data bss dec hex filename
705 48 45056 45809 b2f1 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.o
patched
md5sum: 129f24be6df396fb7d8bf998c01fc716 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64-new.o
text data bss dec hex filename
705 48 45056 45809 b2f1 arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64-new.o
[<<< object code check <<<]
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
