Delay when writing to memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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Issue

  • read() and munmap() 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() and munmap() system calls shown via strace

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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