linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

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Message-ID: <20070612154848.GA23367@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:48:48 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

> > Missing 4K of memory is not worth 4K of junk in syslog per boot. Can
> > you drop the stars and stop shouting?
> 
> How missing about 1G of memory?  We already discussed this, and Andi and 
> Venki felt that either a panic or a really obnoxious message was the 
> way to go...

Perhaps you could vary the number of stars based on the missing amount 
to satisfy Pavel @)

-Andi
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