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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/setup.c20
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
index 776fc9b3fafe..e93283e94758 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
@@ -633,11 +633,16 @@ static void __init trim_snb_memory(void)
printk(KERN_DEBUG "reserving inaccessible SNB gfx pages\n");
/*
- * Reserve all memory below the 1 MB mark that has not
- * already been reserved.
+ * SandyBridge integrated graphics devices have a bug that prevents
+ * them from accessing certain memory ranges, namely anything below
+ * 1M and in the pages listed in bad_pages[] above.
+ *
+ * To avoid these pages being ever accessed by SNB gfx devices
+ * reserve all memory below the 1 MB mark and bad_pages that have
+ * not already been reserved at boot time.
*/
memblock_reserve(0, 1<<20);
-
+
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(bad_pages); i++) {
if (memblock_reserve(bad_pages[i], PAGE_SIZE))
printk(KERN_WARNING "failed to reserve 0x%08lx\n",
@@ -746,8 +751,6 @@ static void __init early_reserve_memory(void)
reserve_ibft_region();
reserve_bios_regions();
-
- trim_snb_memory();
}
/*
@@ -1081,6 +1084,13 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
reserve_real_mode();
+ /*
+ * Reserving memory causing GPU hangs on Sandy Bridge integrated
+ * graphics devices should be done after we allocated memory under
+ * 1M for the real mode trampoline.
+ */
+ trim_snb_memory();
+
init_mem_mapping();
idt_setup_early_pf();