Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:18:28 +0800 | From | Yan Li <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] Suppress false "mtrr all empty" warning message when running as VMware guest |
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:39:20AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Yan Li <elliot.li.tech@gmail.com> wrote: > > Since the mtrr empty was detected very early before we can use DMI or > > PCI to check whether we are running as a VMware guest or not, we now > > only print an info there. Warning will only be issued later when we > > are sure that we are not running as a VMware guest. > > > > mtrr_trim_uncached_memory() is modified to return meaningful codes for > > later warning decision. > > we have moved dmi_scan_machine() much early... > > so please check with latest tip/master to use > dmi_check_system with that.
I checked your patch 1c6e5503 that moved dmi_scan_machine() earlier, but it's still behind mtrr_trim_uncached_memory(), so we still can't use DMI to check for VMware there.
-- Li, Yan
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