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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check that acpi_wakeup_address is below 1MB v2
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:12:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804111712.24233.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1207907709.9448.19.camel@yakui_zhao.sh.intel.com>

On Friday, 11 of April 2008, Zhao Yakui wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 23:33 +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this patch add a check that the memory allocated for s3 wakeup is in the 
> > first 1MB as required by acpi spec.
> > 
> Have you found whether some systems are afflicted by this ?
> 
> In fact that OS allacates the acpi_wake_address follows the below two
> functions:
> reserve_bootmem(0, PAGE_SIZE, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
> reserve_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE, BOOTMEM_DEFAULT);
> 
> The above mechanism can insure that the acpi_wake_address is in memroy
> below 1M. (It is unncessary to apply the patch. IMO)

Agreed.
 
> Of course the addressing check will be more strict after this patch is
> applied.

Matthieu, can you please explain why you consider the patch as necessary?

Thanks,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-11 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 21:33 [PATCH] check that acpi_wakeup_address is below 1MB v2 matthieu castet
2008-04-11  9:55 ` Zhao Yakui
2008-04-11 15:12   ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2008-04-11 18:04     ` matthieu castet

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