From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
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 10:01:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492EE087.80708@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081127115236.GE29013@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * 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".
I don't believe that right now.
we see so many of these, including many "there's no MTRRs at all",
that I am seriously suspecting that our code is just incorrect somehow
and triggering too much.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-27 18:01 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
2008-11-27 17:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-11-27 18:01 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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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