Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:35:51 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental changes and bug fixes |
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* Andreas Herrmann3 <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> wrote:
> > I'll check this asap > > So, now that I've avoided this tiny NULL-pointer-dereference, the > system boots fine as well with your (slightly modified) patch. See > dmesg attached.
for now i applied your ioremap_uncached() patch and removed my patch.
my patch might work if the MTRR marks that area UC. Does it on your system?
if the MTRRs (as set up by the BIOS) keep it at WB, then the ACPI ioremap() is already unsafe: the mmio area that happens to be there might be prefetched by the CPU.
Ingo
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