The patch titled intel-rng workarounds has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is intel-rng-workarounds.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: intel-rng workarounds From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Add a load option to intel-rng to allow skipping the FWH detection, necessary in case the BIOS has locked read-only the firmware hub space. Also prevent any attempt to write to firmware space if it cannot be write enabled (apparently caused hangs on some systems not having an FWH and thus also not having a respective RNG). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c~intel-rng-workarounds drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c~intel-rng-workarounds +++ a/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.c @@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ static const struct pci_device_id pci_tb }; MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, pci_tbl); +static __initdata int no_fwh_detect; +module_param(no_fwh_detect, int, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(no_fwh_detect, "Skip FWH detection:\n" + " positive value - skip if FWH space locked read-only\n" + " negative value - skip always"); static inline u8 hwstatus_get(void __iomem *mem) { @@ -240,6 +245,11 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) if (!dev) goto out; /* Device not found. */ + if (no_fwh_detect < 0) { + pci_dev_put(dev); + goto fwh_done; + } + /* Check for Intel 82802 */ if (dev->device < 0x2640) { fwh_dec_en1_off = FWH_DEC_EN1_REG_OLD; @@ -252,6 +262,23 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) pci_read_config_byte(dev, fwh_dec_en1_off, &fwh_dec_en1_val); pci_read_config_byte(dev, bios_cntl_off, &bios_cntl_val); + if ((bios_cntl_val & + (BIOS_CNTL_LOCK_ENABLE_MASK|BIOS_CNTL_WRITE_ENABLE_MASK)) + == BIOS_CNTL_LOCK_ENABLE_MASK) { + static __initdata /*const*/ char warning[] = + KERN_WARNING PFX "Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can't or\n" + KERN_WARNING PFX "don't want to disable this in firmware setup, and if\n" + KERN_WARNING PFX "you are certain that your system has a functional\n" + KERN_WARNING PFX "RNG, try using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.\n"; + + pci_dev_put(dev); + if (no_fwh_detect) + goto fwh_done; + printk(warning); + err = -EBUSY; + goto out; + } + mem = ioremap_nocache(INTEL_FWH_ADDR, INTEL_FWH_ADDR_LEN); if (mem == NULL) { pci_dev_put(dev); @@ -280,8 +307,7 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) pci_write_config_byte(dev, fwh_dec_en1_off, fwh_dec_en1_val | FWH_F8_EN_MASK); - if (!(bios_cntl_val & - (BIOS_CNTL_LOCK_ENABLE_MASK|BIOS_CNTL_WRITE_ENABLE_MASK))) + if (!(bios_cntl_val & BIOS_CNTL_WRITE_ENABLE_MASK)) pci_write_config_byte(dev, bios_cntl_off, bios_cntl_val | BIOS_CNTL_WRITE_ENABLE_MASK); @@ -315,6 +341,8 @@ static int __init mod_init(void) goto out; } +fwh_done: + err = -ENOMEM; mem = ioremap(INTEL_RNG_ADDR, INTEL_RNG_ADDR_LEN); if (!mem) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx are intel-rng-workarounds.patch ia64-swiotlb-bug-fixes.patch ia64-make-swiotlb-use-bus_to_virt-virt_to_bus.patch ia64-swiotlb-cleanup.patch ia64-swiotlb-abstraction-eg-for-xen.patch ia64-missing-exports-hwsw_sync_.patch ia64-enable-swiotlb-only-when-needed.patch x86_64-do-not-always-end-the-stack-trace-with-ulong_max.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html