From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
akpm@linuxfoundation.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86, mm, pat: Set WT to PA4 slot of PAT MSR
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:41:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5409D99C.10305@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409930574.28990.192.camel@misato.fc.hp.com>
On 09/05/2014 08:22 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 08:07 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 09/05/2014 07:00 AM, Toshi Kani wrote:
>>>
>>> That's a fine idea, but as Ingo also suggested, I am going to disable
>>> this feature on all Pentium 4 models. That should give us a safety
>>> margin. Using slot 4 has a benefit that it keeps the PAT setup
>>> consistent with Xen.
>>>
>>
>> Slot 4 is also the maximally problematic one, because it is the one that
>> might be incorrectly invoked for the page tables themselves.
>
> Good point. I wonder if Xen folks feel strongly about keeping the PAT
> setup consistent with the kernel. If not, we may choose to use slot 6
> (or 7).
>
Who cares what the Xen folks "feel strongly about"? If strong feelings
were a design criterion Xen support would have been pulled from the
kernel a long, long time ago.
The important thing is how to design for the situation that we currently
have to live with.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 18:35 [PATCH 0/5] Support Write-Through mapping on x86 Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86, mm, pat: Set WT to PA4 slot of PAT MSR Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 20:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-04 20:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-04 23:19 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-04 23:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-05 0:29 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-05 0:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-05 14:00 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-05 15:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-05 15:22 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-05 15:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-09-05 15:42 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-12 19:25 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-12 20:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-12 20:21 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-09-04 20:31 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 20:50 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-04 23:27 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-05 10:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2014-09-05 13:50 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-07 13:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86, mm, pat: Change reserve_memtype() to handle WT Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86, mm, asm-gen: Add ioremap_wt() for WT Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86, mm: Add set_memory_wt() " Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 18:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-04 18:57 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 19:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-04 19:30 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-07 8:49 ` Yigal Korman
2014-09-07 16:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-08 15:07 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-08 17:23 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-09-08 18:42 ` Toshi Kani
2014-09-04 18:35 ` [PATCH 5/5] x86, mm, pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() " Toshi Kani
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