Re: Problems with merlot* AMD Opteron 6376 systems (Was Re: stable trees (was: [xen-4.2-testing test] 58584: regressions))

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 11:49 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 26.06.15 at 12:37, <ian.campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > At Andy Cooper's request I ran a quick job with mtrr.show=true
> > http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/58909/ 
> > 
> > I think the relevant serial output is:
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.325077 (XEN) MTRR default type: uncachable
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.325111 (XEN) MTRR fixed ranges enabled:
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.333068 (XEN)   00000-9ffff write-back
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.333101 (XEN)   a0000-bffff uncachable
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.333128 (XEN)   c0000-fffff write-back
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.341077 (XEN) MTRR variable ranges enabled:
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.341110 (XEN)   0 base 000000000000 mask ffff80000000 write-back
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.349088 (XEN)   1 base 000080000000 mask ffffc0000000 write-back
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.349124 (XEN)   2 disabled
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.357068 (XEN)   3 disabled
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.357098 (XEN)   4 disabled
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.357122 (XEN)   5 disabled
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.357147 (XEN)   6 disabled
> > Jun 26 09:57:42.365063 (XEN)   7 disabled
> 
> This alone would mean UC for all memory above 4G. But I seem to
> recall AMD having some mechanism to avoid using MTRRs for this
> case. Let me try to dig this out once back from lunch.

While you do that it seems like I may as well try a run with
"e820-mtrr-clip" given to Xen.

Ian.