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Russell Currey 71f677a910 drm/ast: Handle configuration without P2A bridge
The ast driver configures a window to enable access into BMC
memory space in order to read some configuration registers.

If this window is disabled, which it can be from the BMC side,
the ast driver can't function.

Closing this window is a necessity for security if a machine's
host side and BMC side are controlled by different parties;
i.e. a cloud provider offering machines "bare metal".

A recent patch went in to try to check if that window is open
but it does so by trying to access the registers in question
and testing if the result is 0xffffffff.

This method will trigger a PCIe error when the window is closed
which on some systems will be fatal (it will trigger an EEH
for example on POWER which will take out the device).

This patch improves this in two ways:

 - First, if the firmware has put properties in the device-tree
containing the relevant configuration information, we use these.

 - Otherwise, a bit in one of the SCU scratch registers (which
are readable via the VGA register space and writeable by the BMC)
will indicate if the BMC has closed the window. This bit has been
defined by Y.C Chen from Aspeed.

If the window is closed and the configuration isn't available from
the device-tree, some sane defaults are used. Those defaults are
hopefully sufficient for standard video modes used on a server.

Signed-off-by: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2017-02-28 13:09:50 +10:00
arch platform-drivers-x86 for v4.11-1 2017-02-25 14:35:37 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-02-24 14:42:19 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: change LZ4 modules to work with new LZ4 module version 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
Documentation This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes 2017-02-27 13:26:17 -08:00
drivers drm/ast: Handle configuration without P2A bridge 2017-02-28 13:09:50 +10:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs orangefs: cleanups, a protocol fix and an added configuration button. 2017-02-25 15:02:10 -08:00
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init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-02-22 19:29:24 -08:00
ipc userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
kernel Commit 79c6f448c8 ("tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration") fixed a 2017-02-27 13:36:19 -08:00
lib This is a tree wide change and has been kept separate for that reason. 2017-02-25 13:45:43 -08:00
mm kasan: drain quarantine of memcg slab objects 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
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security mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
sound mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
tools linux-kselftest-4.11-rc1 2017-02-25 15:32:53 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS linux-kselftest-4.11-rc1 2017-02-25 15:32:53 -08:00
Makefile A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around. 2017-02-22 18:51:29 -08:00
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