Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: mtrr_cleanup try gran_size to less than 1M

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 18:46:32 EST


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:32 PM, J.A. Magallón <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:54:12 -0700, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Also, on a 64 bit box with 4Gb, it gives this:
>>
>> cicely:~# cat /proc/mtrr
>> reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size=4096MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg01: base=0x100000000 (4096MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg02: base=0x140000000 (5120MB), size= 512MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg03: base=0x160000000 (5632MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
>> reg04: base=0x80000000 (2048MB), size=2048MB: uncachable, count=1
>>
> boundary handling may have problem...

can you try

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index ef64128..70beb13 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -1044,7 +1044,7 @@ second_try:
hole_sizek = range0_sizek - state->range_sizek - second_sizek;

/* hole size should be less than half of range0 size */
- if (hole_sizek > (range0_sizek >> 1) &&
+ if (hole_sizek >= (range0_sizek >> 1) &&
range0_sizek >= chunk_sizek) {
range0_sizek -= chunk_sizek;
second_sizek = 0;

YH
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