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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:48:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: CPU MTRRs and linux kernel
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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        Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
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Thanks Borislav,
I want to know, should I upgrade to the latest kernel or it is possible to download the source of 2.6.32-24 from repository and modify cleanup.c and then recompile?

~MN

----- Original Message -----
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@yahoo.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: CPU MTRRs and linux kernel

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 02:37:40AM -0700, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> Abour rhis warnning in boot log:
> 
> WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 61952MB of RAM
> 
> ?
> I
>? searched a lot however didn't find a clear solution. Does AMD new 
> processors (62XX) have problems with new kernels or old kernels??
> Mine is:
> 
> Linux n1 2.6.32-24-server #39-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 28 06:21:40 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Should I upgrade?

Yes, fix is below and it got backported to -stable AFAICT but obviously
the ubuntus don't have it in the kernel you cite above.


commit 3fdbf004c1706480a7c7fac3c9d836fa6df20d7d
Author: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Date:?  Thu Sep 30 14:32:35 2010 +0200

? ? x86, mtrr: Assume SYS_CFG[Tom2ForceMemTypeWB] exists on all future AMD CPUs
? ? 
? ? Instead of adapting the CPU family check in amd_special_default_mtrr()
? ? for each new CPU family assume that all new AMD CPUs support the
? ? necessary bits in SYS_CFG MSR.
? ? 
? ? Tom2Enabled is architectural (defined in APM Vol.2).
? ? Tom2ForceMemTypeWB is defined in all BKDGs starting with K8 NPT.
? ? In pre K8-NPT BKDG this bit is reserved (read as zero).
? ? 
? ? W/o this adaption Linux would unnecessarily complain about bad MTRR
? ? settings on every new AMD CPU family, e.g.
? ? 
? ? [? ? 0.000000] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory, losing 4863MB of RAM.
? ? 
? ? Cc: stable@kernel.org # .32.x, .35.x
? ? Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
? ? LKML-Reference: <20100930123235.GB20545@loge.amd.com>
? ? Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
index c5f59d071425..ac140c7be396 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ int __init amd_special_default_mtrr(void)

? ? ? ? if (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor != X86_VENDOR_AMD)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? return 0;
-? ? ?  if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf || boot_cpu_data.x86 > 0x11)
+? ? ?  if (boot_cpu_data.x86 < 0xf)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? return 0;
? ? ? ? /* In case some hypervisor doesn't pass SYSCFG through: */
? ? ? ? if (rdmsr_safe(MSR_K8_SYSCFG, &l, &h) < 0)

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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