Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:41:37 +0200 | | From | "J.A. Magallón" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M |
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:37:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > * J.A. Magallón <jamagallon@ono.com> wrote: > > > Also, on a 64 bit box with 4Gb, it gives this: > > > > cicely:~# cat /proc/mtrr > > reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 > > reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 > > reg02: base=0x140000000 (5120MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1 > > reg03: base=0x160000000 (5632MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 > > reg04: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=2048MB: uncachable, count=1 > > > > Patch below cleans up formatting, with space for big bases and sizes (64 Gb). > > applied to tip/x86/mtrr, thanks! > > > +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c 2008-10-03 00:22:34.000000000 +0200 > > @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ > > static const char *const mtrr_strings[MTRR_NUM_TYPES] = > > { > > "uncachable", /* 0 */ > > - "write-combining", /* 1 */ > > + "write-combine", /* 1 */ > > hm, maybe this bit could confuse versions of Xorg that modifies > /proc/mtrr - i.e. this could be part of the ABI towards user-space. > We'll see. > > Ingo
Oops, it's not only used for messages, also for writes in /proc !!!
Forget this part.
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