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SubjectRe: [BUG?] mtrr sanitizer fails on Latitude E6230
Yinghai Lu writes:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yinghai Lu writes:
> > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I recently got a Dell Latitude E6230 (Ivy Bridge i7-3540M) and noticed that
> > > > the mtrr sanitizer failed on it:
> > > >
> > > > === snip ===
> > > > Linux version 3.12.0 (mikpe@barley) (gcc version 4.8.3 20131017 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Nov 6 09:46:02 CET 2013
> > > > Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ resume=/dev/sda2 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=sv-latin1
> > > ...
> > > gran_size: 8M chunk_size: 64M num_reg: 9 lose cover RAM: 6M
> > > ...
> > > > mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value
> > > > please specify mtrr_gran_size/mtrr_chunk_size
> > > > === snip ===
> > > >
> > > > For now I'm disabling the mtrr sanitizer in this machine's kernel.
> > >
> > > Can you try to boot with "mtrr_gran_size=8m mtrr_chunk_size=64m" ?
> >
> > That results in:
> >
> > reg 0, base: 0GB, range: 8GB, type WB
> > reg 1, base: 8GB, range: 512MB, type WB
> > reg 2, base: 3584MB, range: 512MB, type UC
> > reg 3, base: 3520MB, range: 64MB, type UC
> > reg 4, base: 3512MB, range: 8MB, type UC
> > reg 5, base: 8688MB, range: 16MB, type UC
> > reg 6, base: 8680MB, range: 8MB, type UC
> > reg 7, base: 8678MB, range: 2MB, type UC
> > total RAM covered: 8094M
> > gran_size: 8M chunk_size: 64M num_reg: 9 lose cover RAM: 6M
> > New variable MTRRs
> > reg 0, base: 0GB, range: 2GB, type WB
> > reg 1, base: 2GB, range: 1GB, type WB
> > reg 2, base: 3GB, range: 256MB, type WB
> > reg 3, base: 3328MB, range: 128MB, type WB
> > reg 4, base: 3456MB, range: 64MB, type WB
> > reg 5, base: 3512MB, range: 8MB, type UC
> > reg 6, base: 4GB, range: 4GB, type WB
> > reg 7, base: 8GB, range: 512MB, type WB
> > reg 8, base: 8672MB, range: 32MB, type UC
> > e820: update [mem 0xdb800000-0xffffffff] usable ==> reserved
> > e820: update [mem 0x21e000000-0x21e5fffff] usable ==> reserved
> ...
> >> modified: [mem 0x000000021e000000-0x000000021e5fffff] reserved
>
> that is right, it throw 6M away.
>
> Did you notice any slowness or speeding for x window?

I'm not noticing any change. i915 kernel driver + xorg's intel driver.

> What does /proc/mtrr look like after xwindow is started?

reg00: base=0x000000000 ( 0MB), size= 2048MB, count=1: write-back
reg01: base=0x080000000 ( 2048MB), size= 1024MB, count=1: write-back
reg02: base=0x0c0000000 ( 3072MB), size= 256MB, count=1: write-back
reg03: base=0x0d0000000 ( 3328MB), size= 128MB, count=1: write-back
reg04: base=0x0d8000000 ( 3456MB), size= 64MB, count=1: write-back
reg05: base=0x0db800000 ( 3512MB), size= 8MB, count=1: uncachable
reg06: base=0x100000000 ( 4096MB), size= 4096MB, count=1: write-back
reg07: base=0x200000000 ( 8192MB), size= 512MB, count=1: write-back
reg08: base=0x21e000000 ( 8672MB), size= 32MB, count=1: uncachable

/Mikael


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