From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: "Yan Li" <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
joerg.roedel@amd.com, rjmaomao@gmail.com,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
nancydreaming@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Suppress false "mtrr all empty" warning message when running as VMware guest
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:39:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440809240939h63b14efdm1382ffe4c44c6660@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48da36b3.0e0d6e0a.1c8e.fffff980@mx.google.com>
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since the mtrr empty was detected very early before we can use DMI or
> PCI to check whether we are running as a VMware guest or not, we now
> only print an info there. Warning will only be issued later when we
> are sure that we are not running as a VMware guest.
>
> mtrr_trim_uncached_memory() is modified to return meaningful codes for
> later warning decision.
we have moved dmi_scan_machine() much early...
so please check with latest tip/master to use
dmi_check_system with that.
BTW:
those warning should be good, because VMware is the root cause.
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <a120cfa37281607d8dc361deda1a35419accd193.1222258080.git.elliot.li.tech@gmail.com>
2008-09-24 12:24 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 12:54 ` Laurent Vivier
2008-09-24 13:10 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 14:16 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-25 2:51 ` Yan Li
2008-09-24 16:39 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2008-09-25 2:52 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 14:18 ` Yan Li
2008-09-25 17:13 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-09-26 9:50 ` Yan Li
2008-10-01 20:03 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-05 12:05 ` Yan Li
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