Re: Oops / Warning report for the week of January 28th, 2009: The200.000th trace.

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 29 2009 - 05:49:38 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Rank 3: mtrr_trim_uncached_memory (warning)
> Reported 709 times (14696 total reports)
> BIOS bug (often in VMWare) where the MTRR's are set up incorrectly or not at all
> This warning was last seen in version 2.6.29-rc2-git1, and first seen in 2.6.24.
> More info: http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=mtrr_trim_uncached_memory

This bug is not finding any real issues for us anymore and this rate of
false positives is a distraction - so i've queued up the patch below in
tip/x86/urgent.

Ingo

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