From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754594AbaHZTzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:55:38 -0400 Received: from g4t3425.houston.hp.com ([15.201.208.53]:27321 "EHLO g4t3425.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753396AbaHZTzh (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:55:37 -0400 Message-ID: <1409082317.28990.105.camel@misato.fc.hp.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables From: Toshi Kani To: Juergen Gross Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com, hpa@zytor.com, x86@kernel.org Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:45:17 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1409033783-12136-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> References: <1409033783-12136-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> <1409033783-12136-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 (3.8.5-2.fc19) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 08:16 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Update the translation tables from cache mode to pgprot values according to > the PAT settings. This enables changing the cache attributes of a PAT index in > just one place without having to change at the users side. > > With this change it is possible to use the same kernel with different PAT > configurations, e.g. supporting Xen. > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani Thanks, -Toshi