Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Mar 06 2005 - 12:29:26 EST


On Saturday, 5 of March 2005 00:41, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Actually, take a look at Nigel's patch. He simply uses PageNosave
> > > instead of PageLocked -- that is cleaner.
> >
> > Yes. I thought about using PG_nosave in the begining, but there's a
> >
> > BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) && PageNosave(page));
> >
> > in swsusp.c:saveable() that I just didn't want to trigger. It seems to me,
> > though, that we don't need it any more, do we?
>
> No, we can just kill it. It was "if something unexpected happens, bail
> out soon".

OK

The following is what I'm comfortable with. I didn't took the Nigel's patch
literally, because we do one thing differently (ie nosave pfns) and it contained
some changes that I thought were unnecessary. The i386 part is untested.

Greets,
Rafael


Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

diff -Nrup linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/mm/init.c linux-2.6.11-a/arch/i386/mm/init.c
--- linux-2.6.11/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-03-02 08:38:17.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-a/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-03-06 18:16:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -272,12 +272,15 @@ void __init one_highpage_init(struct pag
{
if (page_is_ram(pfn) && !(bad_ppro && page_kills_ppro(pfn))) {
ClearPageReserved(page);
+ ClearPageNosave(page);
set_bit(PG_highmem, &page->flags);
set_page_count(page, 1);
__free_page(page);
totalhigh_pages++;
- } else
+ } else {
SetPageReserved(page);
+ SetPageNosave(page);
+ }
}

#ifndef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
@@ -602,11 +605,17 @@ void __init mem_init(void)

reservedpages = 0;
for (tmp = 0; tmp < max_low_pfn; tmp++)
- /*
- * Only count reserved RAM pages
- */
- if (page_is_ram(tmp) && PageReserved(pfn_to_page(tmp)))
- reservedpages++;
+ if (!page_is_ram(tmp))
+ /*
+ * Non-RAM pages are always nosave
+ */
+ SetPageNosave(pfn_to_page(tmp));
+ else
+ /*
+ * Count reserved RAM pages
+ */
+ if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(tmp)))
+ reservedpages++;

set_highmem_pages_init(bad_ppro);

@@ -705,6 +714,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
addr = (unsigned long)(&__init_begin);
for (; addr < (unsigned long)(&__init_end); addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
+ ClearPageNosave(virt_to_page(addr));
set_page_count(virt_to_page(addr), 1);
memset((void *)addr, 0xcc, PAGE_SIZE);
free_page(addr);
@@ -720,6 +730,7 @@ void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start
printk (KERN_INFO "Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
+ ClearPageNosave(virt_to_page(start));
set_page_count(virt_to_page(start), 1);
free_page(start);
totalram_pages++;
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c linux-2.6.11-a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c
--- linux-2.6.11/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c 2005-03-02 08:37:49.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-a/arch/x86_64/mm/init.c 2005-03-06 18:16:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -438,11 +438,17 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
totalram_pages += free_all_bootmem();

for (tmp = 0; tmp < end_pfn; tmp++)
- /*
- * Only count reserved RAM pages
- */
- if (page_is_ram(tmp) && PageReserved(pfn_to_page(tmp)))
- reservedpages++;
+ if (!page_is_ram(tmp))
+ /*
+ * Non-RAM pages are always nosave
+ */
+ SetPageNosave(pfn_to_page(tmp));
+ else
+ /*
+ * Count reserved RAM pages
+ */
+ if (PageReserved(pfn_to_page(tmp)))
+ reservedpages++;
#endif

after_bootmem = 1;
@@ -488,6 +494,7 @@ void free_initmem(void)
addr = (unsigned long)(&__init_begin);
for (; addr < (unsigned long)(&__init_end); addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(addr));
+ ClearPageNosave(virt_to_page(addr));
set_page_count(virt_to_page(addr), 1);
memset((void *)(addr & ~(PAGE_SIZE-1)), 0xcc, PAGE_SIZE);
free_page(addr);
@@ -505,6 +512,7 @@ void free_initrd_mem(unsigned long start
printk ("Freeing initrd memory: %ldk freed\n", (end - start) >> 10);
for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
ClearPageReserved(virt_to_page(start));
+ ClearPageNosave(virt_to_page(start));
set_page_count(virt_to_page(start), 1);
free_page(start);
totalram_pages++;
diff -Nrup linux-2.6.11/kernel/power/swsusp.c linux-2.6.11-a/kernel/power/swsusp.c
--- linux-2.6.11/kernel/power/swsusp.c 2005-03-02 08:37:50.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-a/kernel/power/swsusp.c 2005-03-06 18:16:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -532,9 +532,9 @@ static int saveable(struct zone * zone,
return 0;

page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) && PageNosave(page));
if (PageNosave(page))
return 0;
+
if (PageReserved(page) && pfn_is_nosave(pfn)) {
pr_debug("[nosave pfn 0x%lx]", pfn);
return 0;

--
- Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
- That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
-- Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
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