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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_32.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index fc3ace2e88f..1500dc8d63e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -181,8 +181,13 @@ static void __init kernel_physical_mapping_init(pgd_t *pgd_base)
/*
* Map with big pages if possible, otherwise
* create normal page tables:
+ *
+ * Don't use a large page for the first 2/4MB of memory
+ * because there are often fixed size MTRRs in there
+ * and overlapping MTRRs into large pages can cause
+ * slowdowns.
*/
- if (cpu_has_pse) {
+ if (cpu_has_pse && !(pgd_idx == 0 && pmd_idx == 0)) {
unsigned int addr2;
pgprot_t prot = PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE;