Re: [PATCH][v8] PM / hibernate: Verify the consistent of e820 memory map by md5 value

From: Prarit Bhargava
Date: Mon Aug 29 2016 - 17:08:14 EST



[My apologies for breaking threading. I'm not sub'd to LKML ...]

On Mon 2016-08-29 00:35:40, Chen Yu wrote:
>+ if (memcmp(result, buf, MD5_DIGEST_SIZE)) {
>+ pr_err("PM: e820 map conflict detected.\n");
>+ panic("BIOS is playing funny tricks with us.\n");
>+ }

This should have a better explanation. Perhaps

BUG("PM: BIOS e820 map conflicts with map from previous boot. S4/hibernate is
not supported on this platform. Please contact your hardware vendor.\n");

or

pr_crit(FW_BUG "BIOS e820 map conflicts with map from previous boot.");
BUG("PM: S4/hibernate is broken on this platform. Please contact your hardware
vendor for support.\n");

is more appropriate rather than having them filing a kernel.org BZ or
contacting an OS company with a bug that cannot be resolved in software. There
are some other instances in the kernel where we've told them to do the same,
and it is appropriate to do so here.

P.