x86: MTRR workaround for system with stange var MTRRs

Impact: don't trim e820 according to wrong mtrr

Ozan reports that his server emits strange warning.
it turns out the BIOS sets the MTRRs incorrectly.

Ignore those strange ranges, and don't trim e820,
just emit one warning about BIOS

Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BEE1E7.7020706@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
index 58b58bb..f4f89fb 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cleanup.c
@@ -189,6 +189,17 @@ x86_get_mtrr_mem_range(struct res_range *range, int nr_range,
                if (!size)
                        continue;
                base = range_state[i].base_pfn;
+               if (base < (1<<(20-PAGE_SHIFT)) && mtrr_state.have_fixed &&
+                   (mtrr_state.enabled & 1)) {
+                       /* Var MTRR contains UC entry below 1M? Skip it: */
+                       printk(KERN_WARNING "WARNING: BIOS bug: VAR MTRR %d "
+                               "contains strange UC entry under 1M, check "
+                               "with your system vendor!\n", i);
+                       if (base + size <= (1<<(20-PAGE_SHIFT)))
+                               continue;
+                       size -= (1<<(20-PAGE_SHIFT)) - base;
+                       base = 1<<(20-PAGE_SHIFT);
+               }
                subtract_range(range, base, base + size - 1);
        }
        if (extra_remove_size)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index 5c2e266..03cda01 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ struct mtrr_value {
        unsigned long   lsize;
 };
 
-static struct mtrr_value mtrr_state[MTRR_MAX_VAR_RANGES];
+static struct mtrr_value mtrr_value[MTRR_MAX_VAR_RANGES];
 
 static int mtrr_save(struct sys_device * sysdev, pm_message_t state)
 {
@@ -582,9 +582,9 @@ static int mtrr_save(struct sys_device * sysdev, pm_message_t state)
 
        for (i = 0; i < num_var_ranges; i++) {
                mtrr_if->get(i,
-                            &mtrr_state[i].lbase,
-                            &mtrr_state[i].lsize,
-                            &mtrr_state[i].ltype);
+                            &mtrr_value[i].lbase,
+                            &mtrr_value[i].lsize,
+                            &mtrr_value[i].ltype);
        }
        return 0;
 }
@@ -594,11 +594,11 @@ static int mtrr_restore(struct sys_device * sysdev)
        int i;
 
        for (i = 0; i < num_var_ranges; i++) {
-               if (mtrr_state[i].lsize) 
+               if (mtrr_value[i].lsize)
                        set_mtrr(i,
-                                mtrr_state[i].lbase,
-                                mtrr_state[i].lsize,
-                                mtrr_state[i].ltype);
+                                mtrr_value[i].lbase,
+                                mtrr_value[i].lsize,
+                                mtrr_value[i].ltype);
        }
        return 0;
 }

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
index 6710e93..77f67f7 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ extern struct mtrr_ops * mtrr_if;
 
 extern unsigned int num_var_ranges;
 extern u64 mtrr_tom2;
+extern struct mtrr_state_type mtrr_state;
 
 void mtrr_state_warn(void);
 const char *mtrr_attrib_to_str(int x);