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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:52:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081127115236.GE29013@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492DD792.6080302@linux.intel.com>


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Rank 8: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning)
> 	Reported 227 times (619 total reports)
> 	There is a high number of machines where our MTRR checks 
> 	trigger. I suspect we are too picky in accepting the MTRR 
> 	configuration.

the warning here means: "the BIOS messed up but we fixed it up for 
you just fine".

Should we print a DMI descriptor so that it can be tracked back to the 
bad BIOSen in question? Or should we (partially) silence the warning 
itself? Those BIOS bugs need fixing really: older kernels will boot up 
with bad MTRR settings - resulting in a super-slow system or other 
weirdnesses. We can tone down the message so that it doesnt show up in 
kerneloops.org. It's up to you.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-27 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-26 23:11 oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008 Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-27  0:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-11-27 11:48   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-27 19:42   ` Alex Chiang
2008-11-27 19:49     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-27 11:52 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-11-27 17:02   ` Jesse Barnes
2008-11-27 18:01   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-27 20:18     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-27 20:28       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-27 20:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-27 20:53           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-28  8:34             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-27 21:18         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-27 21:18         ` Yinghai Lu
2008-11-27 21:42         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-28 17:18 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-11-28 17:32   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-28 18:36     ` Jay Cliburn
2008-11-28 18:50       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-28 21:12         ` atl1 transmit timeout Was: " Jay Cliburn
2008-11-28 21:22           ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-28 19:50     ` Francois Romieu
2008-11-28 20:12       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-11-30  8:58       ` Roger Luethi

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