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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:01:43 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> Subject: Re: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote: > >> Rank 8: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning) >> Reported 227 times (619 total reports) >> There is a high number of machines where our MTRR checks >> trigger. I suspect we are too picky in accepting the MTRR >> configuration. > > the warning here means: "the BIOS messed up but we fixed it up for > you just fine". I don't believe that right now. we see so many of these, including many "there's no MTRRs at all", that I am seriously suspecting that our code is just incorrect somehow and triggering too much. -- 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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