From: Stuart Hayes <stuart.w.hayes@gmail.com>
To: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
mcgrof@do-not-panic.com, Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] x86: Use larger chunks in mtrr_cleanup
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:46:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55F6DDDF.70909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55E83A3E.3030000@redhat.com>
>>
>> Linux drivers no longer use MTRR so why is the cleanup needed, ie, what would
>> happen if the cleanup is just skipped in your case ?
>
> The infiniband & video drivers still use MTRR (or at least it was my
> understanding that they do). In any case, Stuart -- could you try booting with
> 'disable_mtrr_cleanup' as a kernel parameter?
>
> P.
>
Sorry for the delayed response.
Booting with 'disable_mtrr_cleanup' works, but the system I am working with
isn't actually failing--it just gets ugly error messages. And the BIOS on the
system I am working with had set up the MTRRs correctly.
Stuart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-14 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2015-08-31 16:05 ` Fwd: [PATCH] x86: Use larger chunks in mtrr_cleanup Stuart Hayes
2015-09-03 2:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 12:17 ` Prarit Bhargava
2015-09-03 17:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 18:10 ` Prarit Bhargava
2015-09-03 18:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 19:22 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-03 19:51 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 21:31 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-03 22:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 22:25 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-03 22:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-03 23:21 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-03 23:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-04 0:48 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-04 1:40 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-09-04 14:56 ` Toshi Kani
2015-09-04 6:51 ` Jan Beulich
2015-09-14 14:46 ` Stuart Hayes [this message]
2015-11-05 19:14 ` Yinghai Lu
2015-11-05 19:43 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-03-16 20:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-03-29 17:07 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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