From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Matt Keenan <tank.en.mate@gmail.com>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:24:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070604182422.GA14275@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0706040848y1d1c2ce9p521c65117244edf1@mail.gmail.com>
> Ick. Systems that used to boot fine would then panic on a kernel
> upgrade. That's rather rude for a condition that's merely an
> optimization (using all memory), rather than one of correctness. A
> panic seems entirely inappropriate.
No, when the MTRRs are wrong they would generally not work fine.
As soon as something uses the uncached memory things go incredibly
slow, slow enough to make the machine unusable. Sometimes you're
lucky and nothing important is in there, but only sometimes.
There is also no code in there currently to automatically limit
the memory; the user has to do that with mem=...
But I also don't like the panic.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-04 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 18:14 Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 19:17 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 19:21 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:19 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:26 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-01 21:07 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 21:35 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-01 21:41 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 1:05 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-06-02 1:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-02 8:43 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-02 9:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 20:11 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-03 9:15 ` Matt Keenan
2007-06-04 15:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 15:48 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:49 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 16:01 ` Ray Lee
2007-06-04 15:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 18:24 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-06-04 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-04 18:22 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:08 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-04 19:17 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-04 19:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-04 21:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 0:59 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-06-05 1:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-06-05 9:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 13:18 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-06-05 17:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-06-07 8:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-04 19:24 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? II Andi Kleen
2007-06-05 0:54 ` Intel's response Linux/MTRR/8GB Memory Support / Why doesn't the kernel realize the BIOS has problems and re-map appropriately? Yinghai Lu
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