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SubjectRe: oops/warning report for the week of November 26, 2008

* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Rank 8: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning)
> Reported 227 times (619 total reports)
> There is a high number of machines where our MTRR checks
> trigger. I suspect we are too picky in accepting the MTRR
> configuration.

the warning here means: "the BIOS messed up but we fixed it up for
you just fine".

Should we print a DMI descriptor so that it can be tracked back to the
bad BIOSen in question? Or should we (partially) silence the warning
itself? Those BIOS bugs need fixing really: older kernels will boot up
with bad MTRR settings - resulting in a super-slow system or other
weirdnesses. We can tone down the message so that it doesnt show up in
kerneloops.org. It's up to you.

Ingo


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