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Subject[19/82] x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs
2.6.35-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>

commit 3fdbf004c1706480a7c7fac3c9d836fa6df20d7d upstream.

Instead of adapting the CPU family check in amd_special_default_mtrr()
for each new CPU family assume that all new AMD CPUs support the
necessary bits in SYS_CFG MSR.

Tom2Enabled is architectural (defined in APM Vol.2).
Tom2ForceMemTypeWB is defined in all BKDGs starting with K8 NPT.
In pre K8-NPT BKDG this bit is reserved (read as zero).

W/o this adaption Linux would unnecessarily complain about bad MTRR
settings on every new AMD CPU family, e.g.

[ 0.000000] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 4863MB of RAM.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100930123235.GB20545@loge.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int __init amd_special_default_mtrr(void

if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD)
return 0;
- if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf || boot_cpu_data.x86 > 0x11)
+ if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf)
return 0;
/* In case some hypervisor doesn't pass SYSCFG through: */
if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_K8_SYSCFG, &l, &h) < 0)



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