From: "J.A. Magallon" <magallon@unizar.es>
To: "Linux-Kernel, " <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Opteron box and 4Gb memory
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:09:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071025230904.03d5f46a@werewolf> (raw)
Hi...
I have some Quad-Opteron boxes with 4Gb memory and two of them are
running two different Linux distros.
Box one sees 4Gb of memory, but box two just sees 3.
Their mtrr setups are different:
one:
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20...
...
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000b7fd0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fd0000 - 00000000b7fde000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000b7fde000 - 00000000b8000000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000145000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 753616) 1 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 1048576, 1331200) 2 entries of 3200
used
[ 0.000000] end_pfn_map = 1331200
cat /proc/mtrr:
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0x140000000 (5120MB), size= 64MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x144000000 (5184MB), size= 16MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xb8000000 (2944MB), size= 128MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1
two:
Linux version 2.6.22.9...
...
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000b8fd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000b8fd0000 - 00000000b8fde000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000b8fde000 - 00000000b9000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff780000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 159) 0 entries of 3200 used
Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 757712) 1 entries of 3200 used
end_pfn_map = 1048576
cicely:~# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
reg02: base=0xa0000000 (2560MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0xb0000000 (2816MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0xb8000000 (2944MB), size= 16MB: write-back, count=1
Why ? Is it a bios setup problem ? A kernel problem ?
grep HIGHMEN in configs for both kernels does not give anything, so
I still understand less this thing...
--
J.A. Magallon <magallon()unizar!es> \ Software is like sex:
\ It's better when it's free
MacOS X 10.4.8 Tiger - Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0 PPC
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 21:09 J.A. Magallon [this message]
2007-10-25 21:58 ` Opteron box and 4Gb memory H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-25 22:44 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-10-26 8:08 ` Arne Georg Gleditsch
2007-10-25 22:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-11-04 23:18 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-11-05 18:10 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-11-05 18:45 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-11-05 18:50 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-11-05 23:03 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-11-08 18:08 ` Lennart Sorensen
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