From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
tglx@linutronix.de, rjw@sisk.pl,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:42:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E41447.2060400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090414000627.GL817@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> ... looks like an x86 descriptor table. Does the pattern below make
> any sense to anyone? I've attached the relevant bits of one of the
> reports below.
>
It's weird... it's clearly not random, but the pattern is shifting all
over the place. Almost makes me want to guess some kind of bitmask (the
0xaaaaaa00 bit and the stretches of 00 and ff kind of hint that way) but
even then it doesn't really seem to make a whole lot of sense. Perhaps
it's a data segment of some code which is barfing on memory.
960 bytes at 0xc000 (48K)... almost makes one wonder if someone confused
address 0xc000 with segment 0xc000 (the VGA BIOS)...
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-14 4:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 23:06 [PATCH 0/6] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:12 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS calls -- infrastructure H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-10 8:04 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-10 10:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-10 10:46 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-10 11:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-10 11:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-10 11:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-11 16:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 5:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-12 14:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-12 14:39 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-12 18:57 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13 4:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 4:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 16:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-13 16:57 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-13 17:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-13 18:34 ` Alan Jenkins
2009-04-13 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-14 0:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 4:42 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-14 9:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-14 15:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-13 6:44 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-10 17:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-10 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:13 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the core boot code H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:13 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the APM code H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:13 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the EDD code H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:13 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the MCA code H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-09 23:13 ` [tip:x86/setup] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts in the video code H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-10 8:05 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 0/6] x86, setup: "glove box" BIOS interrupts Rafael J. Wysocki
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