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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2008-09-07 02:37:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-09-07 17:40:02 +0200 |
| commit | c885df50f571faf9fd9f395361cfff1b3a16e06e (patch) | |
| tree | 4a6d416a60553cd9e569a6ef669a579c5f0748b7 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 9f077871ce7237e2387fc76542b3b4033cb05e49 (diff) | |
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x86: default corruption check to off, but put parameter default in Kconfig
Default the low memory corruption check to off, but make the default setting of
the memory_corruption_check kernel parameter a config parameter.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 13 |
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index cbee4199689c..7820d447bb8d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1061,7 +1061,6 @@ config HIGHPTE config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION bool "Check for low memory corruption" - default y help Periodically check for memory corruption in low memory, which is suspected to be caused by BIOS. Even when enabled in the @@ -1082,6 +1081,14 @@ config X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION you can use memmap= to prevent the kernel from using that memory. +config X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK + bool "Set the default setting of memory_corruption_check" + depends on X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION + default y + help + Set whether the default state of memory_corruption_check is + on or off. + config MATH_EMULATION bool prompt "Math emulation" if X86_32 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c index 27ae91288855..ec7e56c1b984 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c @@ -587,7 +587,8 @@ struct x86_quirks *x86_quirks __initdata = &default_x86_quirks; #ifdef CONFIG_X86_CHECK_BIOS_CORRUPTION #define MAX_SCAN_AREAS 8 -static int __read_mostly memory_corruption_check = 0; +static int __read_mostly memory_corruption_check = -1; + static unsigned __read_mostly corruption_check_size = 64*1024; static unsigned __read_mostly corruption_check_period = 60; /* seconds */ @@ -634,6 +635,16 @@ static void __init setup_bios_corruption_check(void) { u64 addr = PAGE_SIZE; /* assume first page is reserved anyway */ + if (memory_corruption_check == -1) { + memory_corruption_check = +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_BOOTPARAM_MEMORY_CORRUPTION_CHECK + 1 +#else + 0 +#endif + ; + } + if (corruption_check_size == 0) memory_corruption_check = 0; |
