From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932560AbZACXkm (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:40:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760104AbZACXkb (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:40:31 -0500 Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:45244 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760060AbZACXka (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:40:30 -0500 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=0 a=j_fXwfwkAAAA:8 a=WCBVr2USdif67LT0x4AA:9 a=xXC5guL6EAfleTNTbWZIkoXBxAUA:4 a=-a-Xhm53yFYA:10 a=cYtf6X6zflwA:10 Message-ID: <495FF769.3040205@shaw.ca> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:40:25 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.network,gmane.linux.kernel To: Arjan van de Ven CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, x86@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, eric@anholt.net, airlied@redhat.com Subject: Re: Bug/Warning report for the week of January 3rd, 2009 References: <20090103140332.74f39ade@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090103140332.74f39ade@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Rank 2: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning) > Reported 420 times (9816 total reports) > BIOS bug (often in VMWare) where the MTRR's are set up incorrectly or not at all > This warning was last seen in version 2.6.28, and first seen in 2.6.24. > More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mtrr_trim_uncached_memory It would be useful if this warning dumped out some DMI BIOS information or something, so we could see what systems/boards this was commonly happening with..