> Hi!
>
>>>> On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to
>>>> cover all available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs)
>>>> of memory will be marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate
>>>> from high memory addresses first, this causes the machine to be
>>>> unusably slow as soon as the kernel starts really using memory
>>>> (i.e. right around init time).
>>>>
>>>> + if ((highest_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT) != end_pfn) {
>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "***************\n");
>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "**** WARNING: likely BIOS bug\n");
>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "**** MTRRs don't cover all of "
>>>> + "memory, trimmed %ld pages\n", end_pfn -
>>>> + (highest_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
>>>> + printk(KERN_WARNING "***************\n");
>>>> + end_pfn = highest_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>>
>>> Missing 4K of memory is not worth 4K of junk in syslog per boot. Can
>>> you drop the stars and stop shouting?
>>
>> How missing about 1G of memory? We already discussed this, and Andi and
>> Venki felt that either a panic or a really obnoxious message was the
>> way to go...
>
> Just use panic, then.
> Pavel,
> who still thinks anyone missing 1GB of ram will not miss
> friendly notice in dmesg, even if it goes without 20 stars.
>
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