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x86: work around MTRR mask setting, v2

improve the debug printout:

- make it actually display something
- print it only once

would be nice to have a WARN_ONCE() facility, to feed such things to
kerneloops.org.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
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      arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c

+ 6 - 1
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c

@@ -401,7 +401,12 @@ static void generic_get_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long *base,
 		tmp |= ~((1<<(hi - 1)) - 1);
 
 		if (tmp != mask_lo) {
-			WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
+			static int once = 1;
+
+			if (once) {
+				printk(KERN_INFO "mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
+				once = 0;
+			}
 			mask_lo = tmp;
 		}
 	}