From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755117AbYKCItL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:49:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754779AbYKCItA (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:49:00 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:60468 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754594AbYKCIs7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:48:59 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:48:42 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Yinghai Lu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [patch] x86: Kill bogus MTRR warning when running under vmware Message-ID: <20081103084842.GD11730@elte.hu> References: <20081031170355.5368be60@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081031170355.5368be60@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.1 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.1 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_05,DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% [score: 0.0382] 0.0 DNS_FROM_SECURITYSAGE RBL: Envelope sender in blackholes.securitysage.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Chuck Ebbert wrote: > x86: Kill bogus MTRR warning when running under vmware > > The warning is suppressed when running under KVM, but VMware > guests also have empty MTRRs. > > Fixes: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468845 we are working on proper "are we within vmware" detection support. Patches already exist and it is useful to know it for other reasons as wel. Ingo