@@ -, +, @@ 
+ For the Athlon 2100, I get the following outputs and then the VGA 
+ console is frozen from further output (but it doesn't prevent the full 
+ bootup into X windows session of which I am able to resume normal 
+ Linux/X session, but not able to regain any virtual console session.)
+ The virtual console (locked) shows the following outputs:
+
+ vesafb: scrolling: redraw:
+ mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4kiB  (<<-- this line is 
+ repeated 20 times).
--- 25/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c~mtrr-size-and-base-debug	2005-01-12 23:01:03.732426224 -0800
+++ 25/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c~mtrr-size-and-base-debug	2005-01-12 23:03:14.081610136 -0800
@@ -375,6 +375,19 @@ int mtrr_add_page(unsigned long base, un
 	return error;
 }
 
+static int mtrr_check(unsigned long base, unsigned long size)
+{
+	if ((base & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) || (size & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING
+			"mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB\n");
+		printk(KERN_DEBUG
+			"mtrr: size: 0x%lx  base: 0x%lx\n", size, base);
+		dump_stack();
+		return -1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  *	mtrr_add - Add a memory type region
  *	@base: Physical base address of region
@@ -415,11 +428,8 @@ int
 mtrr_add(unsigned long base, unsigned long size, unsigned int type,
 	 char increment)
 {
-	if ((base & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) || (size & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))) {
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB\n");
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "mtrr: size: 0x%lx  base: 0x%lx\n", size, base);
+	if (mtrr_check(base, size))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 	return mtrr_add_page(base >> PAGE_SHIFT, size >> PAGE_SHIFT, type,
 			     increment);
 }
@@ -511,11 +521,8 @@ int mtrr_del_page(int reg, unsigned long
 int
 mtrr_del(int reg, unsigned long base, unsigned long size)
 {
-	if ((base & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)) || (size & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))) {
-		printk(KERN_INFO "mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB\n");
-		printk(KERN_DEBUG "mtrr: size: 0x%lx  base: 0x%lx\n", size, base);
+	if (mtrr_check(base, size))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 	return mtrr_del_page(reg, base >> PAGE_SHIFT, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 }
 
-