Re: [PATCH] x86: fixed mtrr change WP to WB

[Yinghai Lu]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:48 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> > [PATCH] x86: fixed mtrr change WP to WB
> >
> > so we modify mptable near below 1M
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
>  Again:
>
>  This does not work on even the majority of all systems.
>
>  If the mptable should be modified, it should be copied to kernel memory and
> modified there.  Modifying it in-place is both unsafe and, in general,
> simply will not work.

but

         * 1) Scan the bottom 1K for a signature
         * 2) Scan the top 1K of base RAM
         * 3) Scan the 64K of bios
         */
        if (smp_scan_config(0x0, 0x400, reserve) ||
            smp_scan_config(639 * 0x400, 0x400, reserve) ||
            smp_scan_config(0xF0000, 0x10000, reserve))
                return;

and all these areas are reserved already.

wonder if we could only modify mpf->mpf_physptr to point to another
mpc and reuse mpf?

YH
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