From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Subject: [PATCH 0/3] e1000e: protect NVM from corruption Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:36:04 -0700 Message-ID: <20080923223517.15567.94071.stgit@gitlost.lost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com To: jeff@garzik.org, davem@davemloft.net, mingo@elte.hu Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.232]:48177 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205AbYIWWgQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:36:16 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so2386478rvb.1 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: These patches apply against commit e002bcc2f8e766a96472379e3b4a8a4e8938a93e of Linus's latest tree. These patches have had some basic tested run against them. These patches are intended to prevent the NVM corruption being reported and will hopefully help in finding a root cause for the NVM corruption. --- Bruce Allan (3): e1000e: remove failed request for sw/fw/hw flag e1000e: Useset_memory_ro()/set_memory_rw() to protect flash memory x86: export set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw() calls arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 2 ++ drivers/net/e1000e/e1000.h | 1 + drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h | 1 + drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c | 11 +++++++---- 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- Signature