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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:59:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440706041759q1b2d528ex24b3de514d09d9ef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1myzfwi0x.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On 6/4/07, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Exactly, and given that this is a fairly easy thing to do, and that
> occasionally we see systems where this happens (even if their BIOS is
> later fixed).  It is likely worth it for someone to write up the patch
> and that compare MTRRs with available memory, and to complain and
> reserve all memory that MTRRs claim is not write-back.
>
that is good.
Sometime BIOS can not even keep mtrr to the identical between
different CPU in SMP system.

Or reset mtrr according to e820 table.

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-01 18:14 Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 19:17   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:19   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:21     ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:14   ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:19     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:24       ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:26         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 21:07     ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:19       ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 21:35         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:41         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02  1:05           ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-06-02  1:15             ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02  8:43               ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02  9:22             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 20:11               ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-03  9:15                 ` Matt Keenan
2007-06-04 15:40                   ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 15:48                     ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:49                       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 16:01                         ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:54                       ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 18:24                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 18:13           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-04 18:22             ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:08               ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:17               ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 19:18               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-04 21:01                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05  0:59                   ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2007-06-05  1:38                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05  9:46                       ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 13:18                         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-05 17:20                         ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-07  8:47                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:23               ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:24                 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? II Andi Kleen
2007-06-05  0:54                 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Yinghai Lu

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