On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 11:14:06AM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> Do any of them have it mapped at all, regardless of the alignment? There
> seems to be nothing else in the kernel that ever looks at the TSEG MSR,
> so I would guess that it has to be non-RAM in the E820 map, otherwise
> nothing would prevent the kernel from allocating and using that space.
Ha, that's a very good question. If all those BIOSes from K8 onwards
would put the TSEG in a non-RAM area and after
66520ebc2df3 ("x86, mm: Only direct map addresses that are marked as
E820_RAM")
(great investigative work, btw, thanks for that!) then we can simply say
that that splitting is not needed anymore.
Maybe Tom can ask BIOS people whether they always did that - that being
to put the TSEG into a non-RAM area. I can boot my debug patch on my
boxes here but that doesn't mean a whole lot...
Thx.
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