[patch 01/16] x86: work around MTRR mask setting

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 13:48:59 EST


2.6.25-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 38cc1c3df77c1bb739a4766788eb9fa49f16ffdf upstream

Joshua Hoblitt reported that only 3 GB of his 16 GB of RAM is
usable. Booting with mtrr_show showed us the BIOS-initialized
MTRR settings - which are all wrong.

So the root cause is that the BIOS has not set the mask correctly:

> [ 0.429971] MSR00000200: 00000000d0000000
> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.433305] MSR00000201: 0000003ff0000800
>
> [ 0.436638] MSR00000202: 00000000e0000000
> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.439971] MSR00000203: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.443304] MSR00000204: 0000000000000006
> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000000c00000800
> should be ==> [ 0.446637] MSR00000205: 0000003c00000800
>
> [ 0.449970] MSR00000206: 0000000400000006
> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000000fe0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.453303] MSR00000207: 0000003fe0000800
>
> [ 0.456636] MSR00000208: 0000000420000006
> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000000ff0000800
> should be ==> [ 0.459970] MSR00000209: 0000003ff0000800

So detect this borkage and add the prefix 111.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ static void generic_get_mtrr(unsigned in
unsigned long *size, mtrr_type *type)
{
unsigned int mask_lo, mask_hi, base_lo, base_hi;
+ unsigned int tmp, hi;

rdmsr(MTRRphysMask_MSR(reg), mask_lo, mask_hi);
if ((mask_lo & 0x800) == 0) {
@@ -242,8 +243,18 @@ static void generic_get_mtrr(unsigned in
rdmsr(MTRRphysBase_MSR(reg), base_lo, base_hi);

/* Work out the shifted address mask. */
- mask_lo = size_or_mask | mask_hi << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT)
- | mask_lo >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ tmp = mask_hi << (32 - PAGE_SHIFT) | mask_lo >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ mask_lo = size_or_mask | tmp;
+ /* Expand tmp with high bits to all 1s*/
+ hi = fls(tmp);
+ if (hi > 0) {
+ tmp |= ~((1<<(hi - 1)) - 1);
+
+ if (tmp != mask_lo) {
+ WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
+ mask_lo = tmp;
+ }
+ }

/* This works correctly if size is a power of two, i.e. a
contiguous range. */

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