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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Alessandro <alezzandro@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Kaergel <mailing@wodkahexe.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Fwd: Fix vesafb/mtrr scaling problem.
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:13:57 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506222113.57390.adobriyan@gmail.com> (raw)

Alessandro, please test this patch and report back if it fixes your problem.

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Subject: Fix vesafb/mtrr scaling problem.
Date: Wednesday 22 June 2005 03:03
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org


vesafb will do really silly things like..

mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,400000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,200000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,100000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,80000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,20000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x800  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x400  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x200  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x100  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x80  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x40  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x20  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x10  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x8  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x4  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x2  base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x1  base: 0xe0000000

Stop scaling down at PAGE_SIZE.
Also fix up some broken indentation.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

--- linux-2.6.12/drivers/video/vesafb.c~	2005-06-21 18:55:59.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.12/drivers/video/vesafb.c	2005-06-21 18:57:26.000000000 -0400
@@ -389,10 +389,11 @@ static int __init vesafb_probe(struct de
 		int temp_size = size_total;
 		/* Find the largest power-of-two */
 		while (temp_size & (temp_size - 1))
-                	temp_size &= (temp_size - 1);
-                        
-                /* Try and find a power of two to add */
-		while (temp_size && mtrr_add(vesafb_fix.smem_start, temp_size, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1)==-EINVAL) {
+			temp_size &= (temp_size - 1);
+
+		/* Try and find a power of two to add */
+		while (temp_size > PAGE_SIZE &&
+			mtrr_add(vesafb_fix.smem_start, temp_size, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1)==-EINVAL) {
 			temp_size >>= 1;
 		}
 	}

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