Re: [Bug 11388] New: 2.6.27-rc3 warns about MTRR range; only 3 of16gb of memory is usable

[Ingo Molnar]

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

> On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:24:59 +0200
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > +               if (tmp != mask_lo) {
> > > > +                       WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an
> > > > incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
> > > 
> > > can you change WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE ?
> > 
> > the commit below does that. Note that the condition is 
> > WARN_ON(condition) or WARN(string) - WARN_ON(string) will just print
> > a kernel stack unconditionally. Unfortunately there's no WARN_ONCE(). 
> > (Arjan?)
> 
> Andrew removed that from the patches as "unused" :-(
> oh well easy to add back ;-)

please send a patch, with at least one user :-)

	Ingo
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