linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/6] x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs

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Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:32:35 +0200
From:	Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...glemail.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists
 on all future AMD CPUs

From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>

Instead of adapting the CPU family check in amd_special_default_mtrr()
for each new CPU family assume that all new AMD CPUs support the
necessary bits in SYS_CFG MSR.

Tom2Enabled is architectural (defined in APM Vol.2).
Tom2ForceMemTypeWB is defined in all BKDGs starting with K8 NPT.
In pre K8-NPT BKDG this bit is reserved (read as zero).

W/o this adaption Linux would unnecessarily complain about bad MTRR
settings on every new AMD CPU family, e.g.

[    0.000000] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 4863MB of RAM.

Cc: stable@...nel.org # .32.x, .35.x
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
index c5f59d0..ac140c7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int __init amd_special_default_mtrr(void)
 
 	if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD)
 		return 0;
-	if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf || boot_cpu_data.x86 > 0x11)
+	if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf)
 		return 0;
 	/* In case some hypervisor doesn't pass SYSCFG through: */
 	if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_K8_SYSCFG, &l, &h) < 0)
-- 
1.6.4.4

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