This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPICA: Fix regression in FADT revision checks
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpica-fix-regression-in-fadt-revision-checks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 3e80acd1af40fcd91a200b0416a7616b20c5d647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:40:43 +0200
Subject: ACPICA: Fix regression in FADT revision checks
From: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
commit 3e80acd1af40fcd91a200b0416a7616b20c5d647 upstream.
commit 64b3db22c04586997ab4be46dd5a5b99f8a2d390 (2.6.39),
"Remove use of unreliable FADT revision field" causes regression
for old P4 systems because now cst_control and other fields are
not reset to 0.
The effect is that acpi_processor_power_init will notice
cst_control != 0 and a write to CST_CNT register is performed
that should not happen. As result, the system oopses after the
"No _CST, giving up" message, sometimes in acpi_ns_internalize_name,
sometimes in acpi_ns_get_type, usually at random places. May be
during migration to CPU 1 in acpi_processor_get_throttling.
Every one of these settings help to avoid this problem:
- acpi=off
- processor.nocst=1
- maxcpus=1
The fix is to update acpi_gbl_FADT.header.length after
the original value is used to check for old revisions.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42700
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727865
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Bob Moore <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Boyer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/acpica/tbfadt.c
@@ -350,10 +350,6 @@ static void acpi_tb_convert_fadt(void)
u32 address32;
u32 i;
- /* Update the local FADT table header length */
-
- acpi_gbl_FADT.header.length = sizeof(struct acpi_table_fadt);
-
/*
* Expand the 32-bit FACS and DSDT addresses to 64-bit as necessary.
* Later code will always use the X 64-bit field. Also, check for an
@@ -395,6 +391,10 @@ static void acpi_tb_convert_fadt(void)
acpi_gbl_FADT.boot_flags = 0;
}
+ /* Update the local FADT table header length */
+
+ acpi_gbl_FADT.header.length = sizeof(struct acpi_table_fadt);
+
/*
* Expand the ACPI 1.0 32-bit addresses to the ACPI 2.0 64-bit "X"
* generic address structures as necessary. Later code will always use
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/acpica-fix-regression-in-fadt-revision-checks.patch
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