I repulled/rebuilding the tip tree this morning.  I can confirm that the
show_msr patch is working and mtrr masking patch is now only printing a
single warning in the dmesg.  The dmesg is attached.

As per usual, the kernel folks provide the best support of any software
in history.  Thanks guys!

-J

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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:56:09AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > i've tidied up your patch (see the commit below) and have queued it up 
> > in x86/urgent. It seems fairly safe and i guess we can push it to 
> > v2.6.27 if Joshua reports test success. Joshua, could you give it a go 
> > please?
> 
> or just try the latest tip/master - please check whether you are getting 
> the right amount of RAM out of box plus this warning message:
> 
> > WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
> 
> 	Ingo