Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3

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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>

To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>

Cc: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@...>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3

Date: Friday, January 25, 2008 - 2:55 pm

Ingo Molnar wrote:
quoted text> * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3
>>     
>
>   
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> Looks like the code doesn't check that the CPU *has* MTRRs...
>>>       
>> so more strict check if mtrr is there really.
>> bail out if mtrr all blank when qemu cpu model is used
>>
>> and check if is AMD as early
>> also remove 4G less check, according to hpa.
>>     
>
> thanks, applied. Shouldnt we put in an exception for when there is MTRR 
> support, but they dont cover anything. Still emit a warning - but 
> booting up real slow is still better than losing all of RAM and crashing 
>   

The problem is re-occuring for me with current x86.git.  Looks like v2 
did the trick, and v3 is broken...

    J
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x86.git: mtrr trimming removes all memory under kvm, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Thu Jan 24, 9:44 pm)

Re: x86.git: mtrr trimming removes all memory under kvm, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jan 24, 9:49 pm)

[PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Yinghai Lu, (Thu Jan 24, 11:47 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 3:43 am)

[PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 4:42 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 10:21 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Andi Kleen, (Fri Jan 25, 10:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 11:10 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Jan 25, 11:57 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 7:09 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 2:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 3:02 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 2:55 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 3:19 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 3:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 2:59 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 3:01 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 3:04 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 3:27 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 3:32 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Fri Jan 25, 3:39 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v3, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 3:30 pm)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 4:13 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Ingo Molnar, (Fri Jan 25, 7:12 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Jan 25, 11:47 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 4:39 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Jan 25, 1:44 am)

Re: [PATCH] x86: trim ram need to check if mtrr is there v2, Yinghai Lu, (Fri Jan 25, 3:50 am)

Re: x86.git: mtrr trimming removes all memory under kvm, Yinghai Lu, (Thu Jan 24, 10:32 pm)

Re: x86.git: mtrr trimming removes all memory under kvm, Andi Kleen, (Fri Jan 25, 6:52 am)

Re: x86.git: mtrr trimming removes all memory under kvm, Yinghai Lu, (Thu Jan 24, 10:21 pm)

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