linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of 16gb of memory is usable

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Date:	Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:48:41 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Joshua Hoblitt" <josh@...litt.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	j_kernel@...litt.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of 16gb of memory is usable

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
>> i've tidied up your patch (see the commit below) and have queued it up
>> in x86/urgent. It seems fairly safe and i guess we can push it to
>> v2.6.27 if Joshua reports test success. Joshua, could you give it a go
>> please?
>
> or just try the latest tip/master - please check whether you are getting
> the right amount of RAM out of box plus this warning message:
>
>> WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
>

according to his dmesg, it works.

may need to change it to WARN_ON only print one time

YH
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