The following patch addresses the issue of EDAC/BIOS coexistence for the
e752x chip-sets. It is a patch agaist 2.6.17-rc3-mm1.
We have found a problem where the BIOS will start the system with the error
registers (dev0:fun1) hidden and assuming it has exclusive access to them.
The edac driver violates this assumption.
The work around this patch offers is to honor the hidden-ness as an
indication that it is not safe to use those registers.
Please apply
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <[email protected]>
Thanks,
diff -urN -X linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1_edac/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c
--- linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c 2006-05-03 11:31:04.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1_edac/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.c 2006-05-03 11:20:54.000000000 -0700
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "edac_mc.h"
+static int force_function_unhide;
+
#define e752x_printk(level, fmt, arg...) \
edac_printk(level, "e752x", fmt, ##arg)
@@ -782,8 +784,16 @@
debugf0("%s(): mci\n", __func__);
debugf0("Starting Probe1\n");
- /* enable device 0 function 1 */
+ /* check to see if device 0 function 1 is enabled; if it isn't, we
+ * assume the BIOS has reserved it for a reason and is expecting
+ * exclusive access, we take care not to violate that assumption and
+ * fail the probe. */
pci_read_config_byte(pdev, E752X_DEVPRES1, &stat8);
+ if (!force_function_unhide && !(stat8 & (1 << 5))) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Contact your BIOS vendor to see if the "
+ "E752x error registers can be safely un-hidden\n");
+ goto fail;
+ }
stat8 |= (1 << 5);
pci_write_config_byte(pdev, E752X_DEVPRES1, stat8);
@@ -1063,3 +1073,8 @@
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Linux Networx (http://lnxi.com) Tom Zimmerman\n");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("MC support for Intel e752x memory controllers");
+
+module_param(force_function_unhide, int, 0444);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(force_function_unhide, "if BIOS sets Dev0:Fun1 up as hidden:"
+" 1=force unhide and hope BIOS doesn't fight driver for Dev0:Fun1 access");
+
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