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Message-ID: <1314402667.4729.38.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:51:07 -0700
From: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Tony Vroon <tony@...x.net>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
"yinghai@...nel.org" <yinghai@...nel.org>, venki@...gle.com
Subject: Re: MTRR setup failure on Fujitsu Lifebook S761
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:24 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 08/26/2011 02:29 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 12:01 -0700, Tony Vroon wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:37 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >>> Hm, I don't see any evidence of the MTRR sanitizer running at all...
> >>
> >> It is almost as if it failed to find an optimal configuration; does that
> >> error path not print anything?
> >
> > MTRR cleanup bails out in mtrr_need_cleanup() if it finds any entry
> > other than WB or UC. And the first entry you had was write-protect.
>
> WP for the BIOS is becoming reasonably common; we need to handle that.
Agree. Ideally in this case PAT should have helped. There must be some
other hidden issue that I am trying to understand.
We should address the WP issue nevertheless.
thanks,
suresh
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