On 2014/02/23 10:40, Remi Locherer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 07:14:01PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > From: Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org>
> > > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 09:55:41 -0700
> > > 
> > > This menas the acpitz bug must be found, and fixed.  You need to reach
> > > out to an acpi hacker, like pirofti, to help diagnose the AML issue
> > > which underlies this.
> > 
> > I had a quick look at the AML and it looks is if the embedded
> > controller is involved in reading the temperature.  Perhaps SMM is
> > touching it behind our back, so I looked at the global lock code again
> > that is supposed to protect against that happening.
> > 
> > Noticed that acpiec(4) tries to acquire the global lock, but doesn't
> > actually check whether it got it.  The diff below fixes this by
> > unifying the code that checks for recursion and does the spinning.
> > Might fix things, or might lock up the machine solidly.  Only one way
> > to find out...
> 
> Thanks for having a look. I didn't notice any difference after I applied
> your patch:
> - no lock up 
> - same wrong value for acpitz0 
> - battery not detected
> - no diff in dmesg (beside the build time of the kernel)
> 
> > If this doesn't help, you should check whether memory at the following
> > addresses:
> > 
> > 0xDAF7CE18
> > 0xDAF9EF18
> > 0xDAF7ADC0
> > 0xDAF79F98
> > 
> > isn't actually marked as available by the BIOS.  ACPI apparently
> > stored important data at those addresses, but if OpenBSD thinks that
> > memory is available and overwrites things, bad things will happen.
> > 
> > I believe the easiest way to find out is to type "machine memory" at
> > the boot> prompt.
> 
> I can't see the first few lines of the "machine memory" output. Is there
> a way to scroll back or use some sort of paging? Since I'm not sure how to
> interprete the numbers I uploaded a photo from the output:
> http://picpaste.com/samsung900X3F-machine-memory.png
> 
> Remi
> 

I think you've got enough of it; the addresses above are covered
by this region

Region 11: type 4 at 0xdaeef000 for 704KB

$ moo 0xdaeef000+(704*1024)
0xdaf9f000      3673812992

i.e. marked as available.

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