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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: pat cpu feature bit setting for known cpus
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:10:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E9948C.3070807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86802c440803251608v6f09f531x57d9688601cc84fd@mail.gmail.com>

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:06 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >>  By the way, I want to clarify: I didn't mean it was *intended* as
>>  >>  vendor-lockin, just that it's an undesirable effect of this.
>>  >
>>  > if the PAT works, we may need to trim the memory according to MTRR, right?
>>  >
>>
>>  That doesn't seem like it's specific to PAT?
> 
> could page table to  set WRBACK the range that is not covered by MTRR in e820..
> 

We have to trim anyway... lest we end up using uncached memory and then 
we're in a world of hurt.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-26  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-25  6:24 [PATCH] x86: pat cpu feature bit setting for known cpus Yinghai Lu
2008-03-25 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-25 13:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 18:03   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-25 19:08     ` Venki Pallipadi
2008-03-25 20:08       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-25 20:38         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:01           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:05             ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-25 23:06               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-25 23:08                 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-25 23:38                   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-03-26  0:01                     ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-26  0:10                   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-03-28 13:41 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-28 14:51   ` Yinghai Lu
2008-03-30 11:43 ` dean gaudet

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