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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:04:52 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...el.com>
To:	"Mauro Giachero" <mauro.giachero@...il.com>
Cc:	"Pim Zandbergen" <P.Zandbergen@...roscoop.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trim memory not covered by WB MTRRs

On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:22:24 Mauro Giachero wrote:
> On 6/27/07, Pim Zandbergen <P.Zandbergen@...roscoop.nl> wrote:
> > Now:
> > Jesse released a new patch and I tried if for fun on 2.6.22-rc6
> > It looks like the patch is releasing memory rather than trimming
> > it:
> >
> > [...]
> > Jun 27 12:22:56 corneille kernel: **** MTRRs don't cover all of
> > memory, trimmed -65536 pages
> > [...]
>
> From Jesse's patch:
> > +       unsigned long i, base, size, highest_addr = 0, def, dummy;
> > [...]
> > +               printk(KERN_WARNING "**** MTRRs don't cover all of
> > " +                      "memory, trimmed %ld pages\n", end_pfn - +
> >                      (highest_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT));
>
> Since both end_pfn (from arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c) and highest_addr
> are unsigned long, maybe the problem is just that %ld in the kprintf
> format string? Shouldn't that be %lu?

Yeah, you're right I should use an unsigned format string.  Pim, if you 
change it to %lu does the printk in your dmesg look better?

Thanks,
Jesse
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