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linux/arch/i386
Andreas Mohr 9b48341752 [PATCH] i386: fix buggy MTRR address checks
Fix checks that failed to realize that values are 4-kB-unit-sized (note the
format strings in this same diff context which *do* realize the unit size,
via appended "000"!).  Also fix an incorrect below-1MB area check (as
gathered from Jan Beulich's unapplied patch at
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0411.1/1378.html ) Update
mtrr_add_page() docu to make 4-kB-sized calculation more obvious.

Given several further items mentioned in Jan's patch mail, all in all MTRR
code seems surprisingly buggy, for a surprisingly long period of time (many
years).  Further work/investigation would be useful.

TBD Note that my patch is pretty much UNTESTED, since I can only verify that it
TBD successfully boots my machine, but I cannot test against actual buggy
TBD hardware which would require these (formerly broken) checks.  Long -mm
TBD simmering would make sense, especially since these now-working checks might
TBD turn out to have adverse effects on unaffected hardware.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 02:14:00 +01:00
..
boot [PATCH] Some config.h removals 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] i386: fix buggy MTRR address checks 2006-12-07 02:14:00 +01:00
lib [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions 2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
mach-default [PATCH] irq-flags: i386: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
mach-es7000 [PATCH] Compilation fix for ES7000 when no ACPI is specified in config (i386) 2006-03-23 07:38:04 -08:00
mach-generic [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with 2006-09-26 10:52:32 +02:00
mach-visws [PATCH] visws build fix 2006-10-28 11:30:52 -07:00
mach-voyager [VOYAGER] fix up ptregs removal mess 2006-10-12 22:25:03 -05:00
math-emu [PATCH] i386: inline assembler: cleanup and encapsulate descriptor and task register management 2005-09-05 00:06:11 -07:00
mm [PATCH] mm: use symbolic names instead of indices for zone initialisation 2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] oprofile: ppro: need to enable/disable all the counters 2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
pci PCI: make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static 2006-12-01 14:37:00 -08:00
power [PATCH] Change the name of pagedir_nosave 2006-09-26 08:49:01 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig 2006-12-07 02:14:00 +01:00
Kconfig Attack of "the the"s in arch 2006-10-03 22:21:02 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] uml: fix processor selection to exclude unsupported processors and features 2006-10-11 11:14:20 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, i386 support 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] x86: Use -maccumulate-outgoing-args 2006-10-21 18:37:01 +02:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] x86-64: Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels 2006-03-25 09:10:52 -08:00