Re: [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sun Jan 20 2008 - 10:10:25 EST


On Sunday 20 January 2008 10:20:27 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [PATCH] x86_64: update e820 instead of updating end_pfn
> >
> > when mtrr is not covering all e820 table, need to trim the ram, need
> > to update e820
>
> ok, i like this approach even more - applied. Would you like to have a
> shot at adding mtrr_trim_uncached_memory() to 32-bit too? It is affected
> by the same problem (if not more).

What about the AMD fix I posted? You ignored that one for now but it is far
more critical because it makes these patches break any modern AMD machine
with >3GB.

-Andi


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