linux-kernel - Re: >3G => iommu => suspend problems -- was Re: SB600 AHCI: Hard Disk Corruption

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Message-ID: <20080525211016.GA32478@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 25 May 2008 23:10:16 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Patrick <ragamuffin@...acomm.ch>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: >3G => iommu => suspend problems -- was Re: SB600 AHCI: Hard
	Disk Corruption

Hi!

> > > iommu problem? Try it with mem=3G.
> > 
> > YES! :-) How did you know?
> 
> Guess how... I hit it myself.
> 
> > So how are we going to get this fixed???
> 
> Write a patch, submit it? ;-).

Can you try this one? It should prevent suspend in the broken cases,
but allow it in mem=4G config.

								Pavel

iommu/gart support misses suspend/resume code, which can do bad stuff,
including memory corruption on resume. Prevent system suspend in case
we would be unable to resume.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>

---
commit 7724af033ea084f0b037ae8a2032da5e40255088
tree 06de661a106ba83a96cab2ee0e76e3f3c44823ab
parent e9f4353b46ec2b05f73e1a84085c305de211bd3e
author Pavel <pavel@....ucw.cz> Sun, 25 May 2008 23:08:17 +0200
committer Pavel <pavel@....ucw.cz> Sun, 25 May 2008 23:08:17 +0200

 arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c |   31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
index 620ec3a..926af9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ #include <linux/bitops.h>
 #include <linux/kdebug.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <linux/iommu-helper.h>
+#include <linux/sysdev.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/mtrr.h>
@@ -548,6 +549,28 @@ static __init unsigned read_aperture(str
 	return aper_base;
 }
 
+static int gart_resume(struct sys_device *dev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int gart_suspend(struct sys_device *dev, pm_message_t state)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static struct sysdev_class gart_sysdev_class = {
+	.name = "gart",
+	.suspend = gart_suspend,
+	.resume = gart_resume,
+
+};
+
+static struct sys_device device_gart = {
+	.id	= 0,
+	.cls	= &gart_sysdev_class,
+};
+
 /*
  * Private Northbridge GATT initialization in case we cannot use the
  * AGP driver for some reason.
@@ -558,7 +581,7 @@ static __init int init_k8_gatt(struct ag
 	unsigned aper_base, new_aper_base;
 	struct pci_dev *dev;
 	void *gatt;
-	int i;
+	int i, error;
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "PCI-DMA: Disabling AGP.\n");
 	aper_size = aper_base = info->aper_size = 0;
@@ -595,6 +618,12 @@ static __init int init_k8_gatt(struct ag
 		dev = k8_northbridges[i];
 		enable_gart_translation(dev, __pa(gatt));
 	}
+	
+	error = sysdev_class_register(&gart_sysdev_class);
+	if (!error)
+		error = sysdev_register(&device_gart);
+	if (error)
+		panic("Could not register gart_sysdev -- would corrupt data on next suspend");
 	flush_gart();
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO "PCI-DMA: aperture base @ %x size %u KB\n",


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