Delay when writing to memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
-
read()
andmunmap()
systemcalls experience a delay when writing to internal memory. -
When the BIOS initializes a MCFG base address of 0xf8000000; the offset is not quite correct when taking into account PCI devices, leading to a potential offset issue when addressing, reading, or writing from memory, as the subsequent
read()
andmunmap()
system calls shown viastrace
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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