Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:22:51 -0700 | From | "Yinghai Lu" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 |
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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:23:20 -0800 Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> wrote: > > > [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v3 > > > > when mtrr is not covering all e820 table, need to trim the ram, need to update e820 > > > > reuse some code for x86_64 > > > > here need to add early_get_cap and use it in early_cpu_detect, and move mtrr_bp_init early > > > > need Justine to test with his special system with bug bios. > > > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> > > Speaking of mtrr and e820.... > > Could someone please take a peek at > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10508 ? > > For some reason we seem to have turned this: > > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bf6d0000 (usable) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6d0000 - 00000000bf6e3000 (ACPI NVS) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6e3000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000140000000 (usable) > > into this: > > reg00: base=0xc0000000 (3072MB), size=1024MB: uncachable, count=1 > reg01: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1 > reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 > reg03: base=0xbf700000 (3063MB), size= 1MB: uncachable, count=1 > reg04: base=0xbf800000 (3064MB), size= 8MB: uncachable, count=1 > > which screws up the X server's attempt to map the video memory at > 0xd0000000. >
the BIOS should have set memhole to 2048MB or 2560M instead of 1033MB
good mtrr should
> reg00: base=0x00000000 (0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
or
> reg00: base=0x00000000 (0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=512MB: write-back, count=1 > reg02: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 > reg03: base=0x140000000 (4096MB), size=512MB: write-back, count=1
so please talk to your HW esp CPU vendor to fix the BIOS problem.
AMD Rev F and Quadcore should get
> reg00: base=0x00000000 (0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1
or
> reg00: base=0x00000000 (0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=512MB: write-back, count=1
because [4G, TOM2) is WB by default.
YH
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