From 304e629bf4a3150a0bf6556fc45c52c5c082340f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:09:03 -0700 Subject: x86: corruption check: run the corruption checks from a work queue Impact: change the implementation of the debug feature the periodic corruption checks are better off run from a work queue; there's nothing time critical about them and this way the amount of interrupt-context work is reduced. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/kernel/check.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/check.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c index 5056703e1b05..55eed1752b43 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/check.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/check.c @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ #include #include - +#include +#include #include #include @@ -108,13 +109,14 @@ void __init setup_bios_corruption_check(void) update_e820(); } -static struct timer_list periodic_check_timer; void check_for_bios_corruption(void) { int i; int corruption = 0; + printk("dot\n"); + if (!memory_corruption_check) return; @@ -135,24 +137,29 @@ void check_for_bios_corruption(void) WARN(corruption, KERN_ERR "Memory corruption detected in low memory\n"); } -static void periodic_check_for_corruption(unsigned long data) +static void check_corruption(struct work_struct *dummy); +static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(bios_check_work, check_corruption); + +static void check_corruption(struct work_struct *dummy) { check_for_bios_corruption(); - mod_timer(&periodic_check_timer, - round_jiffies(jiffies + corruption_check_period*HZ)); + schedule_delayed_work(&bios_check_work, + round_jiffies_relative(corruption_check_period*HZ)); } -void start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void) +static int start_periodic_check_for_corruption(void) { if (!memory_corruption_check || corruption_check_period == 0) - return; + return 0; printk(KERN_INFO "Scanning for low memory corruption every %d seconds\n", corruption_check_period); - init_timer(&periodic_check_timer); - periodic_check_timer.function = &periodic_check_for_corruption; - periodic_check_for_corruption(0); + /* First time we run the checks right away */ + schedule_delayed_work(&bios_check_work, 0); + return 0; } + +module_init(start_periodic_check_for_corruption); #endif -- cgit v1.2.3