Re: Intel BIOS - Corrupted low memory at ffff880000004200

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Ingo Molnar schrieb:
* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:24:47PM +0200, Alexey Fisher wrote:
Hallo Ingo, Richard.

I'm getting "Corrupted low memory" trace with my Intel DG45ID board after resume. This board has different dmi-bios-vendor... so probably it will be nice to have it in your patch.
I'm beginning to think that we should be doing this on all hardware, perhaps with a kernel option to disable it for embedded devices that really need that 64K. The low-memory corruption issue seems to be very widespread.

The problem is that the BIOS corrupted memory that it also marked as 'usable' in its E820 map it gave to the kernel. If that memory is not usable, it should not have been marked as such. Also, some of the reports showed corruption beyond this range so the workaround is not universal.

So i'd really like to know what is happening there, instead of just zapping support for 64K of RAM on the majority of Linux systems.

We might end up doing the same thing in the end (i.e. disable that 64k of RAM) - but it should be an informed decision, not a wild stab in the dark.

	Ingo

If i make memory dump like "dd if=/dev/mem of=memdump.dd bs=64k count=1" before and after suspend. Will it help you find out whats happening.
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