Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of16gb of memory is usable

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 21 2008 - 23:52:18 EST



* Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > [PATCH] x86_64: printout msr
> >>
> >> looks rather useful - added it to tip/x86/debug.
> >
> > fails to build with the attached config:
> >
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c: In function 'print_cpu_msr':
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c:456: error: implicit declaration of function 'rdmsrl_amd_safe'
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c: In function 'print_cpu_info':
> > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c:486: error: 'struct cpuinfo_x86' has no member named 'cpu_index'
> >
> > i realize that this wasnt sent for inclusion, but i think it would make
> > sense to tidy it up and integrate it.
>
> that was one tool to verify if BIOS does right thing about some special bits.
>
> it seems it doesn't compile when xen etc is enable in config.

yeah - but would be nice to fix it, as it's a useful diagnostic patch.
If people have similar problems in the future they can boot their distro
kernels with show_mtrr=x to get a MTRR dump.

Ingo
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