From bb577f980ef35e2b0d00aeed566724e5032aa5eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:51:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 -- arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 2 ++ arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 ++ include/linux/kernel.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index ee89ebc5aab..c239b378097 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 5140bdf0302..455f3fe67b4 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 d37f29376b0..657a16ad61b 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 d3746efb060..f4db5276fa2 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 */ diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index 8017129e6b6..00bb251c645 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ extern int root_mountflags; * able to scatter it around anywhere in the kernel. */ void check_for_bios_corruption(void); +void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void); #else static inline void check_for_bios_corruption(void) { -- 2.41.0