From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756761AbYBILVp (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:21:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753160AbYBILVf (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:21:35 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:56295 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751132AbYBILVe (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Feb 2008 06:21:34 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:21:13 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Alexey Dobriyan cc: mingo@elte.hu, arjan@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CPA spam in dmesg (no pte level 0) In-Reply-To: <20080208213121.GC15571@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> Message-ID: References: <20080208213121.GC15571@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > I enabled pretty much all debugging on > 2.6.24-0cf975e16927fd70f34cee20d3856246c13bb4c8 and CPA code > continuosly spams dmesg like this: > > [ 24.100000] CPA ffff810080000000 no pte level 0 > [ 24.520000] PGD 8063 PUD 0 > [ 24.520000] CPA ffff810080000000 no pte level 0 > [ 24.540000] PGD 8063 PUD 0 > > This is E6400 box with 4G of RAM, x86_64 is used. > dmesg and .config below: Hmm, that's the self test code. The PUD is 0 (i guess it's a memory hole) and it complains loudly about that. This printk is pretty useless, will remove it. Thanks, tglx