Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of 16gb of memory is usable

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Fri Aug 22 2008 - 00:48:50 EST


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> i've tidied up your patch (see the commit below) and have queued it up
>> in x86/urgent. It seems fairly safe and i guess we can push it to
>> v2.6.27 if Joshua reports test success. Joshua, could you give it a go
>> please?
>
> or just try the latest tip/master - please check whether you are getting
> the right amount of RAM out of box plus this warning message:
>
>> WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
>

according to his dmesg, it works.

may need to change it to WARN_ON only print one time

YH
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