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From: J.A. Magallon <magallon@...>
To: Linux-Kernel, <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Opteron box and 4Gb memory
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 5:09 pm

Hi...

I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are
running two different Linux distros.

Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3.
Their mtrr setups are different:

one:
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20...
...
[    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000b7fd0000 (usable)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fd0000 - 00000000b7fde000 (ACPI data)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fde000 - 00000000b8000000 (ACPI NVS)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000145000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 753616) 1 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 1331200) 2 entries of 3200 
used
[    0.000000] end_pfn_map = 1331200

cat /proc/mtrr:
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x140000000 (5120MB), size=  64MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x144000000 (5184MB), size=  16MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xb8000000 (2944MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1

two:
Linux version 2.6.22.9...
...
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000b8fd0000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000b8fd0000 - 00000000b8fde000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000b8fde000 - 00000000b9000000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 757712) 1 entries of 3200 used
end_pfn_map = 1048576

cicely:~# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xa0000000 (2560MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xb0000000 (2816MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xb8000000 (2944MB), size=  16MB: write-back, count=1


Why ? Is it a bios setup problem ? A kernel problem ?
grep HIGHMEN in configs for both kernels does not give anything, so
I still understand less this thing...

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J.A. Magallon <magallon()unizar!es>     \               Software is like sex:
                                         \         It's better when it's free
MacOS X 10.4.8 Tiger - Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0 PPC

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Opteron box and 4Gb memory, J.A. Magallon, (Thu Oct 25, 5:09 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Oct 25, 5:58 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, J.A. , (Sun Nov 4, 7:18 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, Lennart Sorensen, (Mon Nov 5, 2:10 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, J.A. , (Mon Nov 5, 2:45 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, Lennart Sorensen, (Mon Nov 5, 2:50 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, J.A. , (Mon Nov 5, 7:03 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, Lennart Sorensen, (Thu Nov 8, 2:08 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, J.A. , (Thu Oct 25, 6:44 pm)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, Arne Georg Gleditsch, (Fri Oct 26, 4:08 am)
Re: Opteron box and 4Gb memory, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Thu Oct 25, 6:45 pm)