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author | Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> | 2008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-01-30 13:33:18 +0100 |
commit | 99fc8d424bc5d803fe92cad56c068fe64e73747a (patch) | |
tree | 983f615ed69b98c614f38b7240c343c9d7f9418d /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h | |
parent | 03252919b79891063cf99145612360efbdf9500b (diff) | |
download | lwn-99fc8d424bc5d803fe92cad56c068fe64e73747a.tar.gz lwn-99fc8d424bc5d803fe92cad56c068fe64e73747a.zip |
x86, 32-bit: trim memory not covered by wb mtrrs
On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all
available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be
marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses
first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel
starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time).
This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and
figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code)
goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A
fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that
not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug.
Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering
would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the
boot_cpu_data structure being setup.
This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on
non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested
on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off).
Further enhancements and fixes from:
Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h index 54347e9a95c0..fb74a2c20814 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #define MTRRphysMask_MSR(reg) (0x200 + 2 * (reg) + 1) #define NUM_FIXED_RANGES 88 +#define MAX_VAR_RANGES 256 #define MTRRfix64K_00000_MSR 0x250 #define MTRRfix16K_80000_MSR 0x258 #define MTRRfix16K_A0000_MSR 0x259 @@ -32,6 +33,8 @@ an 8 bit field: */ typedef u8 mtrr_type; +extern unsigned int mtrr_usage_table[MAX_VAR_RANGES]; + struct mtrr_ops { u32 vendor; u32 use_intel_if; |