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| author | Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> | 2008-08-21 20:24:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-22 05:49:35 +0200 |
| commit | 38cc1c3df77c1bb739a4766788eb9fa49f16ffdf (patch) | |
| tree | 5d817ca8a89cb6409fdbbce48aa49971c5612aee /arch/powerpc/include/asm | |
| parent | 8323444b5dba3fe55e56a95d20d8f55c1d6745af (diff) | |
x86: work around MTRR mask setting
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@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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