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| author | Hugh Dickins | 2008-09-07 10:51:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar | 2008-09-07 17:40:00 +0200 |
| commit | bb577f980ef35e2b0d00aeed566724e5032aa5eb (patch) | |
| tree | 2c9016f7811fb3ea80bbbc8d9856c217110695b7 /arch | |
| parent | x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption (diff) | |
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x86: add periodic corruption check
Perodically check for corruption in low phusical memory. Don't bother
checking at fault time, since it won't show anything useful.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index ee89ebc5aabc..c239b3780973 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -623,6 +623,7 @@ static void __init setup_bios_corruption_check(void) } static int __read_mostly bios_corruption_check = 1; +static struct timer_list periodic_check_timer; void check_for_bios_corruption(void) { @@ -650,6 +651,22 @@ void check_for_bios_corruption(void) dump_stack(); } +static void periodic_check_for_corruption(unsigned long data) +{ + check_for_bios_corruption(); + mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, jiffies + 60*HZ); +} + +void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void) +{ + if (!bios_corruption_check) + return; + + init_timer(&periodic_check_timer); + periodic_check_timer.function = &periodic_check_for_corruption; + periodic_check_for_corruption(0); +} + static int set_bios_corruption_check(char *arg) { char *end; diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index 5140bdf03020..455f3fe67b42 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -848,8 +848,6 @@ no_context: * Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to * terminate things with extreme prejudice. */ - check_for_bios_corruption(); - #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 bust_spinlocks(1); #else diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c index d37f29376b0c..657a16ad61ba 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c @@ -907,6 +907,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void) int codesize, reservedpages, datasize, initsize; int tmp; + start_periodic_check_for_corruption(); + #ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM BUG_ON(!mem_map); #endif diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index d3746efb060d..f4db5276fa21 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -769,6 +769,8 @@ void __init mem_init(void) { long codesize, reservedpages, datasize, initsize; + start_periodic_check_for_corruption(); + pci_iommu_alloc(); /* clear_bss() already clear the empty_zero_page */ |