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

[Ingo Molnar]

* J.A. Magallón <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> 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
> 
> Patch below cleans up formatting, with space for big bases and sizes (64 Gb).

applied to tip/x86/mtrr, thanks!

> +++ arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/if.c     2008-10-03 00:22:34.000000000 +0200
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
>  static const char *const mtrr_strings[MTRR_NUM_TYPES] =
>  {
>      "uncachable",               /* 0 */
> -    "write-combining",          /* 1 */
> +    "write-combine",            /* 1 */

hm, maybe this bit could confuse versions of Xorg that modifies 
/proc/mtrr - i.e. this could be part of the ABI towards user-space. 
We'll see.

	Ingo
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