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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:54:56 +0800 From: "zhenzhong.duan" <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> CC: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: mtrr: Constrain WB MTRR to max phys mem prior to cleanup δΊ 2012-09-08 02:40, H. Peter Anvin ει: > On 09/07/2012 10:44 AM, Peter Hurley wrote: > \> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c >> b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c > > I really don't like it as it introduces yet another user of max_pfn, > which should be going away. Furthermore, the better question is what > remaining needs there are for MTRR cleanup; historically the reason > was that it prevented the display from being mapped WC via MTRR due to > the MTRR conflict resolution rules favoring UC. For a large memory system, mtrr_cleanup offten fail in most case. Even if it succeed, it often occupy all of MTRR entrys. How was display mapped as WC in above case? Why did bios give a lot of space then real mem, for hotplug? > > However, the right way to fix that is to use the PAT interfaces, which > doesn't have this drawback -- then MTRR cleanup becomes entirely > superfluous and the problem goes away. Do you mean disable MTRR totally here? Regards zduan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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