From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com>,
George Anchev <studio@anchev.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too much RAM
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:35:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180824033540.GI12066@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0fa72221-2272-4489-d9d3-0f68cb874087@tomt.net>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 04:22:57AM +0200, Andre Tomt wrote:
> On 23. aug. 2018 17:44, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 03:44:18PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > > Two users have reported [1] that they have an "extremely unlikely" system
> > > with more than MAX_PA/2 memory and L1TF mitigation is not effective. In fact
> > > it's a CPU with 36bits phys limit (64GB) and 32GB memory, but due to holes
> > > in the e820 map, the main region is almost 500MB over the 32GB limit:
> >
> > Ah I see it's a client part with very large DIMMs and someone being
> > very brave and using that much memory without ECC.
>
> FYI; It is also happening on Xeon E3v2 (Ivy Bridge generation) w/ 32GB of
> ECC RAM here, a low-end server part that officially supports up to 32GB.
Good point.
-andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-24 3:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-23 13:44 [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: fix off-by-one error when warning that system has too much RAM Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-23 13:56 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-23 14:28 ` [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: suggest what to do on systems with " Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-23 15:46 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-23 19:25 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-23 19:38 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-23 20:05 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-23 22:07 ` Andi Kleen
2018-08-23 19:03 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-23 19:23 ` kbuild test robot
2018-08-23 19:27 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-24 7:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 7:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 7:55 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest " tip-bot for Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 10:36 ` [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: suggest " Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 12:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 12:10 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 12:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-08-24 13:57 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/speculation/l1tf: Suggest " tip-bot for Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-23 15:44 ` [PATCH] x86/speculation/l1tf: fix off-by-one error when warning that system has " Andi Kleen
2018-08-23 20:20 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-08-24 2:22 ` Andre Tomt
2018-08-24 3:35 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2018-08-29 2:04 ` Christopher Snowhill
2018-08-24 8:52 ` xxxxxx xxxxxx
2018-08-24 7:55 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/speculation/l1tf: Fix " tip-bot for Vlastimil Babka
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