Bug 45066

Summary:	'failed to set mtrr: No space left on device' is printed on some systems during xorg startup
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Yuri <yuri>
Component:	Lib/pciaccess	Assignee:	Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium	CC:	jeremyhu, matthieu.herrb
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	FreeBSD
Whiteboard:	2012BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Yuri 2012-01-21 20:03:41 UTC

I find this message in kdm.log on FreeBSD-9.0 when I try to start kde4.

Investigating a bit, I got this information:

This message is printed by package libpciaccess-0.12.1, file
src/freebsd_pci.c in it. Rebuilding this package doesn't help.

The error 'failed to set mtrr: No space left on device' results from
system call ioctl(fd, MEMRANGE_SET, &mro) @ freebsd_pci.c:146.
fd there is the fd for /dev/mem
Parameters of this ioctl call are (mro.r.mr_base=40000000
mro.r.mr_len=10000000 mro.r.mr_flags=2 mro.r.mr_owner="pciacces"
mro.mo_arg[0]=0 mro.mmo_arg[1]=0)

This system only has 1GB memory, mr_base=40000000 is already at 1GB, so
mr_len=10000000 makes it out of range? That's why it maybe failed.


This issue is also mentioned in FreeBSD PR#ports/164350

libpciaccess-0.12.1

Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2012-06-12 03:33:41 UTC

ajax, can you take a look at this.

Comment 2 Adam Jackson 2012-07-19 22:32:51 UTC

I'm not a FreeBSD person, but I'd expect -ENOSPC to mean that you're already out of MTRRs.

Comment 3 Matthieu Herrb 2012-08-12 17:24:06 UTC

Seeing that too on OpenBSD with a thinkpad X220. I confirm that it's caused by the MTRR table beeing full already (filled by BIOS) when starting X.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-10 20:18:32 UTC

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