Robert Suetterlin <sutter@robert2.mpe-garching.mpg.de> writes:
> 2. I was not allowed to do `base=0 size=0x400000000
> type=write-back`, because of the overlap with the memory range at
> base=0x0fb000000.
/proc/mtrr does allow overlapping regions in some cases, but the
conditions turned out to be stricter than I remembered. You have to
create the enclosing range first, which makes the facility useless in
this case (perhaps in all potentially useful cases).
> So what I do is only disable 3-7, and then
> base=0x400000000 size=0x400000000.
Yes, that solution should be safe.
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