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    [PATCH] i386: Enable support for fixed-range IORRs to keep RdMem & WrMem in sync · de938c51
    Bernhard Kaindl authored
    If our copy of the MTRRs of the BSP has RdMem or WrMem set, and
    we are running on an AMD64/K8 system, the boot CPU must have had
    MtrrFixDramEn and MtrrFixDramModEn set (otherwise our RDMSR would
    have copied these bits cleared), so we set them on this CPU as well.
    
    This allows us to keep the AMD64/K8 RdMem and WrMem bits in sync
    across the CPUs of SMP systems in order to fullfill the duty of
    system software to "initialize and maintain MTRR consistency
    across all processors." as written in the AMD and Intel manuals.
    
    If an WRMSR instruction fails because MtrrFixDramModEn is not
    set, I expect that also the Intel-style MTRR bits are not updated.
    
    AK: minor cleanup, moved MSR defines around
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
    Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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