From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 08:51:32 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~699^2^6~13
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x86: check for and defend against BIOS memory corruption

Some BIOSes have been observed to corrupt memory in the low 64k.  This
change:
 - Reserves all memory which does not have to be in that area, to
   prevent it from being used as general memory by the kernel.  Things
   like the SMP trampoline are still in the memory, however.
 - Clears the reserved memory so we can observe changes to it.
 - Adds a function check_for_bios_corruption() which checks and reports on
   memory becoming unexpectedly non-zero.  Currently it's called in the
   x86 fault handler, and the powermanagement debug output.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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