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* [BUG 2.6.29_rc8] BIOS Bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 0MB of RAM.
@ 2009-03-16 13:48 Ozan Çağlayan
  2009-03-16 18:21 ` Yinghai Lu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Ozan Çağlayan @ 2009-03-16 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hi,

Just compiled and tried to boot it on an HP ProLiant DL580 G5. Here's the
interesting part:

..
-- last_pfn = 0x82ffff max_arch_pfn = 0x1000000
x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 0MB of RAM.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c:1655 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2a9/0x2cd()
Hardware name: ProLiant DL580 G5
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29_rc8-115 #1
Call Trace:
 [<c013134d>] warn_slowpath+0x71/0xa8
 [<c039971c>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x1f
 [<c039971c>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x19/0x1f
 [<c01319c4>] ? release_console_sem+0x185/0x1b2
 [<c0131e49>] ? vprintk+0x280/0x2a5
 [<c03973da>] ? printk+0xf/0x15
 [<c053423f>] mtrr_trim_uncached_memory+0x2a9/0x2cd
 [<c052f4bd>] setup_arch+0x439/0x99e
 [<c01319c4>] ? release_console_sem+0x185/0x1b2
 [<c0131e49>] ? vprintk+0x280/0x2a5
 [<c0531b37>] ? __reserve_early+0xe4/0xf8
 [<c03973da>] ? printk+0xf/0x15
 [<c052b5b6>] start_kernel+0x7b/0x345
 [<c052b085>] __init_begin+0x85/0x8d
---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
update e820 for mtrr
..

This is a quite generic x86 desktop kernel with only the
following differences for the server:

CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH=y
CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP=y
CONFIG_MCORE2=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y
# CONFIG_X86_GENERIC is not set

I didn't want to add full dmesg and config for not flooding the e-mail but
if you need them or other output/information, i can send them.

Thanks,


Ozan Çağlayan


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2009-03-16 13:48 [BUG 2.6.29_rc8] BIOS Bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 0MB of RAM Ozan Çağlayan
2009-03-16 18:21 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 20:17   ` Ozan Çağlayan
2009-03-16 22:00     ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-16 22:42       ` Ozan Çağlayan
2009-03-16 22:52         ` Yinghai Lu
2009-03-17  9:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-16 23:33         ` [PATCH] x86: workaround system with stange var MTRR -v2 Yinghai Lu

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