Re: Out of mtrrs

From: "J.A. Magallón"
Date: Fri Aug 29 2008 - 12:17:30 EST



On 2008.08.29, at 18:01, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:32:49 +0200
""J.A. Magallón"" <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all...

I'm using the xorg intel driver, and drm/X report it has no free mtrrs
in kernel to set up:

one:~# cat /proc/mtrr
reg00: base=0xfffe0000 (4095MB), size= 128KB: write-protect, count=1
reg01: base=0xfffc0000 (4095MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x10000000 ( 256MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x1f800000 ( 504MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0x1f600000 ( 502MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
reg06: base=0x1f500000 ( 501MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg07: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1


with disable_mtrr_trim, I get te same:

reg00: base=0xfffe0000 (4095MB), size= 128KB: write-protect, count=1
reg01: base=0xfffc0000 (4095MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1
reg02: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg03: base=0x10000000 ( 256MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg04: base=0x1f800000 ( 504MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1
reg05: base=0x1f600000 ( 502MB), size= 2MB: uncachable, count=1
reg06: base=0x1f500000 ( 501MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1
reg07: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 128KB: uncachable, count=1

Is there any other option ?

cicely:/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc# grep mtrr kernel-par*
disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only]

did this work with older kernels?
if so, you should disable the MTRR munging feature of newer kernels;
it's not working well enough ;)

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