On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
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> Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> it seems that all linux kernels contain a bug with mtrr:
>>
>>  cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x00000000 (   0MB), size=198656MB:
>> write-back, count=1
>> reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=197120MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg02: base=0x9fc00000 (2556MB), size=196612MB: uncachable, count=1
>> reg03: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=200704MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg04: base=0x200000000 (8192MB), size=204800MB: write-back, count=1
>>
>> (watch the size)
>>
>> it is definitely  present in the kernels 2.6.16, 2.6.24, 2.6.25, 2.6.26.
>>
>> 198656 is 0x3080000000, the correct value would be 0x80000000, similarly
>> 197120 is 0x3020000000, the correct would be 0x20000000.
>
> Those are set up by the BIOS, so it would be what's at fault. I think we may
> be adding something to fix this up though?

the fix is in mainline already...,
Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 21 20:24:24 2008 -0700

    x86: work around MTRR mask setting

please try 2.6.27-rc5...

YH
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