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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:01:43 -0800
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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.