From: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
To: Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@fastmail.fm>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mtrr failure, 3.1-rc1
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:10:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110825221037.GA6876@gherkin.frus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110825070335.3095B3BC183@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org>
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 09:03:35AM +0200, Anders Eriksson wrote:
> (mtrr issues)
Similar MTRR issue here with a K6-III/450, which I noticed when the X11
server was no longer able to allocate/configure a MTRR. "cat /proc/mtrr"
shows nothing configured regardless of whether the X11 server is running.
I only see a diagnostic message to the effect of the MTRR not existing
when X11 exits.
Possibly significant: prior 3.X kernel versions would cause the X11
server to exit with a corrupted display after about 3-5 invocations.
Machine was otherwise usable, but had to reboot remotely to recover the
console display. The "no MTRR" issue in 3.1-rc1 has thus far meant no
display corruption on X11 server exit: have run "startx" at least 10
times since booting 3.1-rc1.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-25 7:03 mtrr failure, 3.1-rc1 Anders Eriksson
2011-08-25 15:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-25 16:46 ` Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 17:21 ` anders eriksson
2011-08-25 17:43 ` Suresh Siddha
2011-08-25 17:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-25 17:46 ` [PATCH] mtrr: fix UP breakage caused during switch to stop_machine Tejun Heo
2011-08-25 18:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-25 18:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-25 19:47 ` mtrr failure, 3.1-rc1 anders eriksson
2011-08-25 22:10 ` Bob Tracy [this message]
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