From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, airlied@skynet.ie,
davej@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@infradead.org,
jesse.barnes@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/12] PAT 64b: Basic PAT implementation
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:50:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m11w9kd2t9.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071214183112.GA2057@linux-os.sc.intel.com> (Venki Pallipadi's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:31:12 -0800")
Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> writes:
> Checking the manual for this. You are right, we had missed some steps here.
> Actually, manual says on MP, PAT MSR on all CPUs must be consistent (even when
> they are not really using it in their page tables.
> So, this will change the init and shutdown parts significantly and there may be
> some challenges with CPU offline and KEXEC. We will redo this part in next
> iteration.
Well the normal kexec path is no worse then reboot. The kdump path is a
mess but only a minor one, and with us only changing the UC- case we
can probably just ignore it and leave the system started with that
pat register set to WC :)
What we are doing really should be no worse the MTRR setup except
that disabling it at reboot is polite.
CPU online and offline that is weird, but so far it is always weird,
and I don't think ever quite correct.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-18 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-13 23:55 [RFC PATCH 00/12] PAT 64b: PAT support for X86_64 venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] PAT 64b: Add cpu_shutdown() support venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] PAT 64b: Basic PAT implementation venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14 0:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 18:31 ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-12-18 4:50 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-12-14 3:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 4:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:10 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 23:34 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-15 7:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 10:25 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18 4:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:06 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] PAT 64b: drm driver changes for PAT venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] PAT 64b: reserve_mattr and free_mattr " venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] PAT 64b: pci mmap conlfict patch venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] PAT 64b: Add ioremap_wc support venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14 4:17 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-14 4:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 4:32 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-14 4:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:40 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 23:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18 8:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] PAT 64b: dev mem chanegs for pat venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14 0:19 ` Greg KH
2007-12-14 0:35 ` David Miller
2007-12-14 6:34 ` Greg KH
2007-12-16 21:57 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-12-17 12:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18 4:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-18 4:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18 9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18 13:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 0:43 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 0:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-12-14 3:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 6:02 ` Greg KH
2007-12-14 6:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 10:19 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] PAT 64b: map only usable memory in identity mapping venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] PAT 64b: Make acpi use early map instead of assuming identity map venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] PAT 64b: devmem do not read pages not mapped in " venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] PAT 64b: skip attr tracking for RAM venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14 0:28 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] PAT 64b: PAT support for X86_64 Dave Airlie
2007-12-14 22:00 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 22:27 ` Dave Airlie
2007-12-14 22:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-14 22:37 ` Dave Airlie
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