From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753465AbYI3Svg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:51:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752900AbYI3Sv1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:51:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:55216 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753080AbYI3Sv0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:51:26 -0400 Message-ID: <48E274F7.4080803@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:50:31 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Yinghai Lu , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: mtrr_cleanup prepare to make gran_size to less 1M References: <1222739652-17169-1-git-send-email-yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> <48E1A5E8.3030304@zytor.com> <20080930074552.GA19366@elte.hu> <20080930081141.GA29840@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080930081141.GA29840@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> * H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >>> Applied series to tip:x86/mtrr, thanks! >> tested them and pushed it out into tip/master. > > btw., now that we've got wide enough exposure (a kernel release), could > we please flip around the default of CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER and make it > default-y? This feature should only produce a worse result if there's a > bug in that code, right? > Yes. Furthermore, right now the code has to be enabled *and* a kernel command line option has to be passed. I suspect we eventually want to runtime-enable it by default, too. -hpa