Incorrect MTRR caching attribute
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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The Open Compute Project |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
System under test: OCP v2
Release: 12.04.2 LTS
Architecture: amd64
Processor Information: Intel: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
RAM: 32G
Summary: FWTS https:/
FAILED [MEDIUM] MTRRIncorrectAttr: Test 1, Memory range 0x80000000 to 0xdfffffff (PCI Bus 0000:00)
has incorrect attribute Write-Combining.
Steps to reproduce:
sudo fwts mtrr -
..runs the test on your machine and dumps the output to stdout.
OR
sudo fwts mtrr
..runs the test on your machine and appends the output to the default log results.log.
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Results generated by fwts: Version V0.25.06precise1 (Tue Sep 4 12:56:28 CST 2012).
Some of this work - Copyright (c) 1999 - 2010, Intel Corp. All rights reserved.
Some of this work - Copyright (c) 2010 - 2012, Canonical.
This test run on 13/03/13 at 00:03:36 on host Linux ocpr0s2r 3.5.0-25-generic #39~precise1-Ubuntu
SMP Tue Feb 26 00:07:14 UTC 2013 x86_64.
Running tests: mtrr.
MTRR validation.
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MTRR overview
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Reg 0: 0x0000000000000000 - 0x0000000080000000 ( 2048 MB) Write-Back
Reg 1: 0x0000000100000000 - 0x0000000200000000 ( 4096 MB) Write-Back
Reg 2: 0x0000000200000000 - 0x0000000400000000 ( 8192 MB) Write-Back
Reg 3: 0x0000000400000000 - 0x0000000800000000 ( 16384 MB) Write-Back
Reg 4: 0x0000000800000000 - 0x0000000880000000 ( 2048 MB) Write-Back
Reg 5: 0x00000000d0000000 - 0x00000000d8000000 ( 128 MB) Write-Combining
Test 1 of 3: Validate the kernel MTRR IOMEM setup.
FAILED [MEDIUM] MTRRIncorrectAttr: Test 1, Memory range 0x80000000 to 0xdfffffff (PCI Bus 0000:00)
has incorrect attribute Write-Combining.
Test 2 of 3: Validate the MTRR setup across all processors.
PASSED: Test 2, All processors have the a consistent MTRR setup.
Test 3 of 3: Check for AMD MtrrFixDramModEn being cleared by the BIOS.
SKIPPED: Test 3, CPU is not an AMD, cannot test.
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1 passed, 1 failed, 0 warnings, 0 aborted, 1 skipped, 0 info only.
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1 passed, 1 failed, 0 warnings, 0 aborted, 1 skipped, 0 info only.
Test Failure Summary
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Critical failures: NONE
High failures: NONE
Medium failures: 1
mtrr: Memory range 0x80000000 to 0xdfffffff (PCI Bus 0000:00) has incorrect attribute Write-Combining.
Low failures: NONE
Other failures: NONE
Test |Pass |Fail |Abort|Warn |Skip |Info |
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mtrr | 1| 1| | | 1| |
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Total: | 1| 1| 0| 0| 1| 0|
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Changed in opencompute: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
@ Samantha,
can you please attach outputs of "sudo lspci -xxx > pci.log" and "sudo acpidump > acpi.log"?