linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of 16gb of memory is usable

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Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:17:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Joshua Hoblitt <josh@...litt.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	j_kernel@...litt.com
Subject: Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of
	16gb of memory is usable


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:24:59 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > +               if (tmp != mask_lo) {
> > > > +                       WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an
> > > > incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
> > > 
> > > can you change WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE ?
> > 
> > the commit below does that. Note that the condition is 
> > WARN_ON(condition) or WARN(string) - WARN_ON(string) will just print
> > a kernel stack unconditionally. Unfortunately there's no WARN_ONCE(). 
> > (Arjan?)
> 
> Andrew removed that from the patches as "unused" :-(
> oh well easy to add back ;-)

please send a patch, with at least one user :-)

	Ingo
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