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From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
To: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, bp@suse.de,
	jbeulich@suse.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86, pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:06:11 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1437588371-28223-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> (raw)

Add comments to the cachemode translation tables to clarify that
the default values are set as minimal supported mode, which are
necessary to handle WC and WT fallback to UC- when they are not
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
Ingo, please replace the patch below with this patch.
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg937806.html
---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 8533b46..1d8a83d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
@@ -30,8 +30,11 @@
 /*
  * Tables translating between page_cache_type_t and pte encoding.
  *
- * Minimal supported modes are defined statically, they are modified
- * during bootup if more supported cache modes are available.
+ * The default values are defined statically as minimal supported mode;
+ * WC and WT fall back to UC-.  pat_init() updates these values to support
+ * more cache modes, WC and WT, when it is safe to do so.  See pat_init()
+ * for the details.  Note, __early_ioremap() used during early boot-time
+ * takes pgprot_t (pte encoding) and does not use these tables.
  *
  *   Index into __cachemode2pte_tbl[] is the cachemode.
  *

             reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-22 18:06 Toshi Kani [this message]
2015-07-23  6:42 ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 14:27   ` Toshi Kani
2015-07-23 14:50     ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 15:25       ` Toshi Kani
2015-07-23 15:36         ` Jan Beulich
2015-07-23 15:38           ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-02 10:07             ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-08-03 15:08               ` Toshi Kani
2015-08-20 19:30 ` [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/pat: " tip-bot for Toshi Kani

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