I did boot another kernel and for that kernel there was one entry for mtrr, so this seems to work. However, now I have tried executing both the mtrr and cache activation code, and when coming to any inline assembly code the program exits with a segfault :( All commented out calls have been tried one after the other by single-stepping with gdb.
Below is the main progam I used:
#include <mem.h> main() { struct mem_range mem; int res = iopl(3); if(res) {error();exit(-1);} // cache_enable(); // p6_configure_l2_cache(); cache_on(mem); }
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:54, ron minnich wrote:
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Takeshi Sone wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:00PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
# Faulty system: cat /proc/mtrr cat: /proc/mtrr: No such file or directory
I guess the BIOS does not initialize the MTRR, and all RAM is uncached. (MTRR is the registers that tell CPU where to cache)
no, even if bios does not set mtrr, those registers exist, and are readable. Something weird is going on here!
ron is going on here.
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