Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757885AbYCCRti (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:49:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753355AbYCCRt3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:49:29 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35850 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752796AbYCCRt2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:49:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:48:58 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Klaus S. Madsen" Cc: Pavel Machek , Suspend-devel list , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Thomas Gleixner , Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.25-rc3: s2ram segfaults before suspending Message-ID: <20080303174858.GB25496@elte.hu> References: <20080228192404.GH17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C70C01.4020605@zytor.com> <20080228194920.GJ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C739A6.5020608@zytor.com> <20080229070028.GK17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C873AA.6040305@zytor.com> <20080229212654.GL27212@elte.hu> <20080301094525.GQ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <20080303121735.GE28369@elf.ucw.cz> <20080303151155.GT17932@hjernemadsen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080303151155.GT17932@hjernemadsen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1217 Lines: 31 * Klaus S. Madsen wrote: > The following patch solves the segfault, by changing the mmap flags of > the video memory area, to allow execution. The patch is against > libx86-0.99 available from http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/libx86/ > > --- libx86-0.99/x86-common.c 2006-09-08 00:44:27.000000000 +0200 > +++ libx86-0.99.new/x86-common.c 2008-03-01 10:08:25.000000000 +0100 > @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ > } > > m = mmap((void *)0xa0000, 0x100000 - 0xa0000, > - PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, > + PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE | PROT_EXEC, are you sure you ID-ed the right commit that broke things? while requiring PROT_EXEC is fine, breaking existing user-space apps over that is not fine. So are you absolutely sure that by reverting that PWT|PCD commit, s2ram again starts to work? That's utmost weird... perhaps there's some CPU bug that causes NX to _NOT_ work if only PCD is used (not PCD|PWT). Seems like a pretty unlikely scenario though. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/