linux-kernel - Re: CPA spam in dmesg (no pte level 0)

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802091217440.3145@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:	Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:21:13 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	mingo@...e.hu, arjan@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPA spam in dmesg (no pte level 0)

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> I enabled pretty much all debugging on
> 2.6.24-0cf975e16927fd70f34cee20d3856246c13bb4c8 and CPA code
> continuosly spams dmesg like this:
> 
> [   24.100000] CPA ffff810080000000 no pte level 0
> [   24.520000] PGD 8063 PUD 0
> [   24.520000] CPA ffff810080000000 no pte level 0
> [   24.540000] PGD 8063 PUD 0
> 
> This is E6400 box with 4G of RAM, x86_64 is used.
> dmesg and .config below:

Hmm, that's the self test code. The PUD is 0 (i guess it's a memory
hole) and it complains loudly about that. This printk is pretty
useless, will remove it.

Thanks,
	tglx


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