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<entry>
<title>dmi_scan: refactor dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:46+00:00</published>
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Move the calls to memcpy_fromio() up into the loop in
dmi_scan_machine(), and move the signature checks back down into
dmi_decode().  We need to check at 16-byte intervals but keep a 32-byte
buffer for an SMBIOS entry, so shift the buffer after each iteration.

Merge smbios_present() into dmi_present(), so we look for an SMBIOS
signature at the beginning of the given buffer and then for a DMI
signature at an offset of 16 bytes.

[artem.savkov@gmail.com: use proper buf type in dmi_present()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Tim McGrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov &lt;artem.savkov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move the calls to memcpy_fromio() up into the loop in
dmi_scan_machine(), and move the signature checks back down into
dmi_decode().  We need to check at 16-byte intervals but keep a 32-byte
buffer for an SMBIOS entry, so shift the buffer after each iteration.

Merge smbios_present() into dmi_present(), so we look for an SMBIOS
signature at the beginning of the given buffer and then for a DMI
signature at an offset of 16 bytes.

[artem.savkov@gmail.com: use proper buf type in dmi_present()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Tim McGrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov &lt;artem.savkov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dump_stack: implement arch-specific hardware description in task dumps</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:15+00:00</published>
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x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.

* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
  them out with PID, comm and utsname.  Some of the information is
  printed again later in the same dump.

* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
  it out with "Hardware name:" label.  This applies to both x86 and
  ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.

* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.

This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack().  It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.

dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data.  It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message.  It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using.  The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().

This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary.  Removed.

show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs().  The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81c614dc&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f500&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f54a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff8234a0c3&gt;] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
    also contains BIOS information.  Move hardware name into its own
    line as warn_slowpath_common() did.  This change was suggested by
    Bjorn Helgaas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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x86 and ia64 can acquire extra hardware identification information
from DMI and print it along with task dumps; however, the usage isn't
consistent.

* x86 show_regs() collects vendor, product and board strings and print
  them out with PID, comm and utsname.  Some of the information is
  printed again later in the same dump.

* warn_slowpath_common() explicitly accesses the DMI board and prints
  it out with "Hardware name:" label.  This applies to both x86 and
  ia64 but is irrelevant on all other archs.

* ia64 doesn't show DMI information on other non-WARN dumps.

This patch introduces arch-specific hardware description used by
dump_stack().  It can be set by calling dump_stack_set_arch_desc()
during boot and, if exists, printed out in a separate line with
"Hardware name:" label.

dmi_set_dump_stack_arch_desc() is added which sets arch-specific
description from DMI data.  It uses dmi_ids_string[] which is set from
dmi_present() used for DMI debug message.  It is superset of the
information x86 show_regs() is using.  The function is called from x86
and ia64 boot code right after dmi_scan_machine().

This makes the explicit DMI handling in warn_slowpath_common()
unnecessary.  Removed.

show_regs() isn't yet converted to use generic debug information
printing and this patch doesn't remove the duplicate DMI handling in
x86 show_regs().  The next patch will unify show_regs() handling and
remove the duplication.

An example WARN dump follows.

 WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4841 init_workqueues+0x35/0x505()
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.9.0-rc1-work+ #3
 Hardware name: empty empty/S3992, BIOS 080011  10/26/2007
  0000000000000009 ffff88007c861e08 ffffffff81c614dc ffff88007c861e48
  ffffffff8108f500 ffffffff82228240 0000000000000040 ffffffff8234a08e
  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88007c861e58
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff81c614dc&gt;] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f500&gt;] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8108f54a&gt;] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
  [&lt;ffffffff8234a0c3&gt;] init_workqueues+0x35/0x505
  ...

v2: Use the same string as the debug message from dmi_present() which
    also contains BIOS information.  Move hardware name into its own
    line as warn_slowpath_common() did.  This change was suggested by
    Bjorn Helgaas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dmi: morph dmi_dump_ids() into dmi_format_ids() which formats into a buffer</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:14+00:00</published>
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We're goning to use DMI identification for other purposes too.  Morph
dmi_dump_ids() which is used to print DMI identification as a debug
message during boot into dmi_format_ids() which formats the same
information sans the leading "DMI:" tag into a string buffer.

dmi_present() is updated to format the information into dmi_ids_string[]
using the new function and print it with "DMI:" prefix.

dmi_ids_string[] will be used for another purpose by a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We're goning to use DMI identification for other purposes too.  Morph
dmi_dump_ids() which is used to print DMI identification as a debug
message during boot into dmi_format_ids() which formats the same
information sans the leading "DMI:" tag into a string buffer.

dmi_present() is updated to format the information into dmi_ids_string[]
using the new function and print it with "DMI:" prefix.

dmi_ids_string[] will be used for another purpose by a future patch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi_scan: fix missing check for _DMI_ signature in smbios_present()</title>
<updated>2013-03-08T23:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben@decadent.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-08T20:43:32+00:00</published>
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Commit 9f9c9cbb6057 ("drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version
from SMBIOS if it exists") hoisted the check for "_DMI_" into
dmi_scan_machine(), which means that we don't bother to check for
"_DMI_" at offset 16 in an SMBIOS entry.  smbios_present() may also call
dmi_present() for an address where we found "_SM_", if it failed further
validation.

Check for "_DMI_" in smbios_present() before calling dmi_present().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Tim McGrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 9f9c9cbb6057 ("drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version
from SMBIOS if it exists") hoisted the check for "_DMI_" into
dmi_scan_machine(), which means that we don't bother to check for
"_DMI_" at offset 16 in an SMBIOS entry.  smbios_present() may also call
dmi_present() for an address where we found "_SM_", if it failed further
validation.

Check for "_DMI_" in smbios_present() before calling dmi_present().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: Tim McGrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tim Mcgrath &lt;tmhikaru@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Make 'efi_enabled' a function to query EFI facilities</title>
<updated>2013-01-30T19:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-14T09:42:35+00:00</published>
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Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Corentin Chary &lt;corentincj@iksaif.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Langasek &lt;steve.langasek@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Originally 'efi_enabled' indicated whether a kernel was booted from
EFI firmware. Over time its semantics have changed, and it now
indicates whether or not we are booted on an EFI machine with
bit-native firmware, e.g. 64-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware.

The immediate motivation for this patch is the bug report at,

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557

which details how running a platform driver on an EFI machine that is
designed to run under BIOS can cause the machine to become
bricked. Also, the following report,

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47121

details how running said driver can also cause Machine Check
Exceptions. Drivers need a new means of detecting whether they're
running on an EFI machine, as sadly the expression,

    if (!efi_enabled)

hasn't been a sufficient condition for quite some time.

Users actually want to query 'efi_enabled' for different reasons -
what they really want access to is the list of available EFI
facilities.

For instance, the x86 reboot code needs to know whether it can invoke
the ResetSystem() function provided by the EFI runtime services, while
the ACPI OSL code wants to know whether the EFI config tables were
mapped successfully. There are also checks in some of the platform
driver code to simply see if they're running on an EFI machine (which
would make it a bad idea to do BIOS-y things).

This patch is a prereq for the samsung-laptop fix patch.

Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Corentin Chary &lt;corentincj@iksaif.net&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Langasek &lt;steve.langasek@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: fetch dmi version from SMBIOS if it exists</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T01:40:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenzhong Duan</name>
<email>zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T23:05:14+00:00</published>
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The right dmi version is in SMBIOS if it's zero in DMI region

This issue was originally found from an oracle bug.
One customer noticed system UUID doesn't match between dmidecode &amp; uek2.

 - HP ProLiant BL460c G6 :
   # cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid
   00000000-0000-4C48-3031-4D5030333531
   # dmidecode | grep -i uuid
   UUID: 00000000-0000-484C-3031-4D5030333531

From SMBIOS 2.6 on, spec use little-endian encoding for UUID other than
network byte order.

So we need to get dmi version to distinguish.  If version is 0.0, the
real version is taken from the SMBIOS version.  This is part of original
kernel comment in code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The right dmi version is in SMBIOS if it's zero in DMI region

This issue was originally found from an oracle bug.
One customer noticed system UUID doesn't match between dmidecode &amp; uek2.

 - HP ProLiant BL460c G6 :
   # cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_uuid
   00000000-0000-4C48-3031-4D5030333531
   # dmidecode | grep -i uuid
   UUID: 00000000-0000-484C-3031-4D5030333531

From SMBIOS 2.6 on, spec use little-endian encoding for UUID other than
network byte order.

So we need to get dmi version to distinguish.  If version is 0.0, the
real version is taken from the SMBIOS version.  This is part of original
kernel comment in code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: check dmi version when get system uuid</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T01:40:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenzhong Duan</name>
<email>zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T23:05:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f1d8e614d74b09531b9a85e812485340f3df7b1c'/>
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As of version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3 fields of the
UUID are supposed to be little-endian encoded.

Also a minor fix to match variable meaning and mute checkpatch.pl

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment]
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As of version 2.6 of the SMBIOS specification, the first 3 fields of the
UUID are supposed to be little-endian encoded.

Also a minor fix to match variable meaning and mute checkpatch.pl

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak code comment]
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Feng Jin &lt;joe.jin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver</title>
<updated>2012-07-24T17:16:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-20T20:15:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d'/>
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Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: make dmi_name_in_vendors more focused</title>
<updated>2011-11-16T00:41:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-15T22:36:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=66e13e66b6c4e5b2ecd6225e1f8437640cfb6498'/>
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The current implementation of dmi_name_in_vendors() is an invitation to
lazy coding and false positives [1].  Searching for a string in 8 know
what you're looking for, so you should know where to look.  strstr isn't
fast, especially when it fails, so we should avoid calling it when it
just can't succeed.

Looking at the current users of the function, it seems clear to me that
they are looking for a system or board vendor name, so let's limit
dmi_name_in_vendors to these two DMI fields.  This much better matches
the function name, BTW.

[1] We currently have code looking for short names in DMI data, such as
"IBM", "ASUS" or "Acer".  I let you guess what will happen the day other
vendors ship products named, for example, "SCHREIBMEISTER", "PEGASUS" or
"Acerola".

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The current implementation of dmi_name_in_vendors() is an invitation to
lazy coding and false positives [1].  Searching for a string in 8 know
what you're looking for, so you should know where to look.  strstr isn't
fast, especially when it fails, so we should avoid calling it when it
just can't succeed.

Looking at the current users of the function, it seems clear to me that
they are looking for a system or board vendor name, so let's limit
dmi_name_in_vendors to these two DMI fields.  This much better matches
the function name, BTW.

[1] We currently have code looking for short names in DMI data, such as
"IBM", "ASUS" or "Acer".  I let you guess what will happen the day other
vendors ship products named, for example, "SCHREIBMEISTER", "PEGASUS" or
"Acerola".

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, dmi, debug: Log board name (when present) in dmesg/oops output</title>
<updated>2011-02-15T03:20:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naga Chumbalkar</name>
<email>nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-14T22:47:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=84e383b322e5348db03be54ff64cc6da87003717'/>
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The "Type 2" SMBIOS record that contains Board Name is not
strictly required and may be absent in the SMBIOS on some
platforms.

( Please note that Type 2 is not listed in Table 3 in Sec 6.2
  ("Required Structures and Data") of the SMBIOS v2.7
  Specification. )

Use the Manufacturer Name (aka System Vendor) name.
Print Board Name only when it is present.

Before the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: /ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2170, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 /ProLiant DL380 G6

After the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2278, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #4 HP ProLiant DL380 G6

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar &lt;nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .3x - good for debugging, please apply as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110214224423.2182.13929.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The "Type 2" SMBIOS record that contains Board Name is not
strictly required and may be absent in the SMBIOS on some
platforms.

( Please note that Type 2 is not listed in Table 3 in Sec 6.2
  ("Required Structures and Data") of the SMBIOS v2.7
  Specification. )

Use the Manufacturer Name (aka System Vendor) name.
Print Board Name only when it is present.

Before the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: /ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2170, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 /ProLiant DL380 G6

After the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2278, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #4 HP ProLiant DL380 G6

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar &lt;nagananda.chumbalkar@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bjorn.helgaas@hp.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .3x - good for debugging, please apply as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110214224423.2182.13929.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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