Possible ACPI relared panic with Tyan S2720
Nate Lawson
nate at root.org
Tue Jun 5 08:45:25 UTC 2007
Peter Holm wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:45:23PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
>> This is a really confusing issue. All the trace you have shows is that
>> it occurs while transitioning the system from legacy to ACPI mode.
>> Unfortunately, the details of what is going on are hidden in the BIOS
>> since that write to a port triggers an SMI and the BIOS does the rest.
>>
>> However, it seems like the BIOS is reserving more memory, using memory
>> it didn't reserve, or FreeBSD is using memory we shouldn't. John, any
>> insight on the SMAP output?
>>
>>> SMAP type=01 base=0000000000000000 len=000000000009fc00
>>> SMAP type=02 base=000000000009fc00 len=0000000000000400
>>> SMAP type=02 base=00000000000e0000 len=0000000000020000
>>> SMAP type=01 base=0000000000100000 len=000000003fef0000
>>> SMAP type=03 base=000000003fff0000 len=000000000000f000
>>> SMAP type=04 base=000000003ffff000 len=0000000000001000
>>> SMAP type=02 base=00000000fec00000 len=0000000000100000
>>> SMAP type=02 base=00000000fee00000 len=0000000000001000
>>> SMAP type=02 base=00000000fff80000 len=0000000000080000
>> Peter, can you figure out what phys address is getting overwritten?
>> Seems like it's the loader that sets up the module list and the loader's
>> allocator may be using RAM it shouldn't.
>>
>
> If I did it right (I used a vtophys() on the address):
>
> Address of mod->name(if_tun): 0xc3eed5ec, phys: 0x985ec
So it's somewhere near 620K and the first region goes to 640K - 1 K.
The last 1 K is type 2 (reserved). Nothing seems to show why switching
to acpi mode results in an overwrite of data at 620K. I'm not sure
where to look.
There should be some way to write a guard pattern to that area but I'll
have to think about it a bit first. Can you see if a BIOS update is
available and try it out? What about seeing if you can pre-alloc (by
hacking loader's SMAP code to reserve more of the first 640 K) and
writing a pattern there, then verifying it at various points during boot
to be sure we know exactly where the BIOS is writing?
--
Nate
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