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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Add UV memory protection bios call
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:22:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081022062235.GD651@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081021200112.GD32545@sgi.com>


* Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> wrote:

> Add UV bios call to change memory protections.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
> 
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/bios_uv.c |    8 ++++++++
>  include/asm-x86/uv/bios.h |   10 +++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

> -	UV_BIOS_WATCHLIST_FREE
> +	UV_BIOS_WATCHLIST_FREE,
> +	UV_BIOS_MEMPROTECT

> +enum uv_memprotect {
> +	UV_MEMPROT_RESTRICT_ACCESS,
> +	UV_MEMPROT_ALLOW_AMO,
> +	UV_MEMPROT_ALLOW_RW

hm, what does this do? Does it twiddle the southbridge to protect given 
physical RAM rages from the CPU altogether?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 20:01 [PATCH 2/3] x86: Add UV memory protection bios call Russ Anderson
2008-10-22  6:22 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-22 14:40   ` Russ Anderson

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