The explanation for recent video BIOS suspend quirk failures is that
the VESA BIOS expects to be entered in Big Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffffffff)
instead of ordinary Real Mode (*.limit = 0xffff).
This patch changes the segment descriptors to Big Real Mode instead.
The segment descriptor registers (what Intel calls "segment cache") is
always active. The only thing that changes based on CR0.PE is how it is
*loaded* and the interpretation of the CS flags.
The segment descriptor registers contain of the following sub-registers:
selector (the "visible" part), base, limit and flags. In protected mode
or long mode, they are loaded from descriptors (or fs.base or gs.base can
be manipulated directly in long mode.) In real mode, the only thing
changed by a segment register load is the selector and the base, where the
base <- selector << 4. In particular, *the limit and the flags are not
changed*.
As far as the handling of the CS flags: a code segment cannot be writable
in protected mode, whereas it is "just another segment" in real mode, so
there is some kind of quirk that kicks in for this when CR0.PE <- 0. I'm
not sure if this is accomplished by actually changing the cs.flags register
or just changing the interpretation; it might be something that is
CPU-specific. In particular, the Transmeta CPUs had an explicit "CS is
writable if you're in real mode" override, so even if you had loaded CS
with an execute-only segment it'd be writable (but not readable!) on return
to real mode. I'm not at all sure if that is how other CPUs behave.
Signed-off-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Today's linux-next build (powerpc allmodconfig) failed like this:
ERROR: ".save_stack_trace" [tests/backtracetest.ko] undefined!
But save_stack_trace is exported in arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
I couldn't figure it out until I noticed these earlier warnings:
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c:47: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
I applied the patch below.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Finally fixes a possible scheduling while in atomic context bug. The driver
used to wait on a waitqueue if no empty buffer was available. This could
lead to a deadlock if the driver was called from non-schedulable context.
So fix this. The write operation may fail now. It returns the number of
characters accepted. put_char will never fail, since it writes characters
to an intermediate buffer which gets flushed as soon as it is full.
That means the driver now can busy wait if something is in the intermediate
buffer and a write_string operation follows. Seems to be an acceptable
compromise, since that shouldn't happen too often.
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
After all we came to the conclusion that this interface doesn't make any
sense. Besides that the ioctl number used was never registered, the header
file isn't exported, and we doubt there is even a single user.
So remove this interface, since it eases maintenance.
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Most likely it is broken anyway because of the changes in memory
detection. Since we can't test it and there are probably better ways
that using a P390 card, remove support for it.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
H. Peter Anvin
Stephen Rothwell
Ingo Molnar
Heiko Carstens
Christian Borntraeger
Klaus-D. Wacker
Martin Schwidefsky
Hongjie Yang
Michael Holzheu
Gerald Schaefer