x86: work around MTRR mask setting, v2

improve the debug printout:

- make it actually display something
- print it only once

would be nice to have a WARN_ONCE() facility, to feed such things to
kerneloops.org.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
index 43102e03e2d1..cb7d3b6a80eb 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
@@ -401,7 +401,12 @@ static void generic_get_mtrr(unsigned int reg, unsigned long *base,
                 tmp |= ~((1<<(hi - 1)) - 1);
 
                 if (tmp != mask_lo) {
-                        WARN_ON("mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
+                        static int once = 1;
+
+                        if (once) {
+                                printk(KERN_INFO "mtrr: your BIOS has set up an incorrect mask, fixing it up.\n");
+                                once = 0;
+                        }
                         mask_lo = tmp;
                 }
         }