Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:43:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] x86 PAT changes |
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On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Linus, please pull the x86-pat git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86-pat.git for-linus > > this adds the second (and final) phase of the x86 PAT changes. Due to > generic impact (the drivers/char/mem.c and include/asm-generic/iomap.h > changes) this is offered as a separate tree.
So why is PAT dependent on NONPROMISC_DEVMEM here?
It seems pointless and wrong. Somebody might want to have both the full /dev/mem and PAT.
Also, it causes this message for me on one of my machines:
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 mtrr: no more MTRRs available Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal ... eth0: no IPv6 routers present Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xd0020000 mtrr: no more MTRRs available Overlap at 0xd0000000-0xe0000000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0400000 Overlap at 0xe0300000-0xe0380000
which is a bit annoying. Forgotten debug printk, perhaps?
Linus
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