linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86

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Date:	Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:37:16 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64
> 
> mtrr_trim_uncached_memory is only used in x86_64,
> 
> so disable_mtrr_trim is not needed for x86_32
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@....com>

That seems like a bug, and if so this patch goes the wrong direction. 
(If the 32-bit code has another solution for the same problem, they 
should be unified.)

The trimming of uncachable memory affects both 32- and 64-bit kernels; 
it's the same hardware, and even 32-bit kernels (with PAE) can access 
memory above 4 GB.

	-hpa
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