linux-kernel - Re: strange MTRR on 2.6.29-git

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:25:40 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
To:	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: strange MTRR on 2.6.29-git

> Found this on todays 2.6.29 + git. The same address range has both WB 
> and UC MTRR-s.
> 
> reg00: base=0x000000000 (    0MB), size=  512MB, count=1: write-back
> reg01: base=0x020000000 (  512MB), size=    1MB, count=1: write-back
> reg02: base=0x020000000 (  512MB), size=    1MB, count=1: uncachable
> reg03: base=0x0f2000000 ( 3872MB), size=   32MB, count=2: write-combining
> reg04: base=0x0f8000000 ( 3968MB), size=   64MB, count=1: write-combining

Actually, these double MTRR-s for the range @ 512M are there long time. 
Testbooted 2.6.20 that is the earliest kernel I have around here and 
this conflicting double MTRR is still there, so it's not a recent 
change. In 2.6.20 reg04 was not present but that's probably unimportant 
since reg01 and reg02 are the same.

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@...ux.ee)
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