Re: Misc fixes for 2.6.27

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Tue Sep 02 2008 - 04:23:27 EST


On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:19 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:16:39PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:01:19 +0200
> > Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:32:16 +0200
> > > > Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > >> > +
> > > >> > +static struct dmi_system_id __initdata intel_iommu_dmi_table[]
> > > >> > = {
> > > >> > + { /* Some DG33BU BIOS revisions advertised
> > > >> > non-existent VT-d */
> > > >>
> > > >> Are you sure it's non existent? A G33 chipset should have it in
> > > >> hardware I thought.
> > > >
> > > > nope they don't/
> > > > later ones and some other models do though, but not the G33
> > >
> > > I see. But presumably that chipset will be in other motherboards
> > > too and that BIOS bug might be also wider spread. So it would be
> > > still better to key off an PCI-ID or similar.

It's certainly possible that the same BIOS bug could show up elsewhere.
I was expecting that we could add new motherboards to the DMI table if
that happens.

> > it would be nice, no doubt, unfortunately this code runs (and needs to
> > run) before the PCI subsystem is initialized...
>
> early quirks handles these cases. Check out early-quirks.c

That might work, I suppose -- although the iommu probe happens early, it
looks like the early-quirks are handled even earlier. Unfortunately the
last attempt at flashing a BIOS on my DG33BU has turned it into a brick
and even the recovery procedure doesn't work, so I can't test any more
-- I'm more inclined to stick with what I'd tested, but if you feel
strongly and someone can test this version, then perhaps we could go
with that instead...

I made it check for this:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller [8086:29c0] (rev 02)

Are we sure that device never going to appear on a board which really
_does_ have an IOMMU? And we should probably get it into pci_ids.h too.


diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
index 4353cf5..f51f61b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/early-quirks.c
@@ -95,6 +95,20 @@ static void __init nvidia_bugs(int num, int slot, int func)

}

+#ifdef CONFIG_DMAR
+static void __init intel_g33_dmar(int num, int slot, int func)
+{
+ struct acpi_table_header *dmar_tbl;
+ acpi_status = status;
+
+ status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_DMAR, 0, &dmar_tbl);
+ if (ACPI_SUCCESS(status)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "BIOS BUG: DMAR advertised on Intel G31/G33 chipset -- ignoring\n");
+ dmar_disabled = 1;
+ }
+}
+#endif
+
#define QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE 0x1
#define QFLAG_APPLIED 0x2
#define QFLAG_DONE (QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE|QFLAG_APPLIED)
@@ -114,6 +128,10 @@ static struct chipset early_qrk[] __initdata = {
PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_PCI, PCI_ANY_ID, QFLAG_APPLY_ONCE, via_bugs },
{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_AMD, PCI_DEVICE_ID_AMD_K8_NB,
PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_HOST, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, fix_hypertransport_config },
+#ifdef CONFIG_DMAR
+ { PCI_VENDOR_ID_INTEL, 0x29c0,
+ PCI_CLASS_BRIDGE_HOST, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, intel_g33_dmar },
+#endif
{}
};



--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation



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