From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:03:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118210344.GC10717@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <924EFEDD5F540B4284297C4DC59F3DEE62B7BA@orsmsx423.amr.corp.intel.com>
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
> Ingo, can you remove this PAT MTRR exclusion.
yeah, already did that.
> Actually, this exclusion will not work at all with the current code.
> Infact it should be PAT selects MTRR, for the current code. As
> pat_init() is called during mtrr init as the rules for how to change
> PAT and how to change MTRR are same. Further, MTRR is always required
> on SMP, as we read the MTRR setting from boot CPU and set it on Aps at
> boot time. We should only remove the /proc/mtrr write permissions with
> CONFIG_PAT. We need to deprecate it for a while before that...
ok.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 3:50 Yinghai Lu
2008-01-18 8:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18 9:03 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-01-18 12:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18 18:24 ` Dave Jones
2008-01-18 18:47 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-18 18:56 ` Dave Jones
2008-01-18 21:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-01-18 21:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-19 3:28 ` Dave Jones
2008-01-19 7:56 ` [PATCH] X86: disable X86_PAT really Yinghai Lu
2008-01-19 7:58 ` [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT Yinghai Lu
2008-01-22 18:26 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
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