From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PAT support
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 12:19:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wylayiw.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48225DEC.2030502@keyaccess.nl> (Rene Herman's message of "Thu, 08 May 2008 03:57:00 +0200")
Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> writes:
>
> Use a new Linux defined X86_FEATURE_PAT_GOOD feature flag to
Better would be PAT_TESTED or PAT_RANDOMLY_APPROVED.
Most of these CPUs without PAT_GOOD have actually perfectly good PAT, as
Windows proves every day.
The main flaw in all of this of course is that there is no procedure to test
CPUs which do not have the flag set yet.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 1:48 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Rene Herman
2008-05-07 2:39 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 12:46 ` Undocumented and duplicated code Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 13:14 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 20:52 ` 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 20:59 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 21:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 21:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 21:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 22:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:29 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:04 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:23 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:31 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 0:02 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 0:10 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 0:28 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 1:57 ` [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PAT support Rene Herman
2008-05-08 1:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 2:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 2:17 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 2:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 12:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 13:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-08 16:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 13:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-08 13:33 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 14:44 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 14:53 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 16:53 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:04 ` [PATCH] x86: enable PAT support on AMD Duron model 7 Rene Herman
2008-05-08 2:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-08 2:12 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 10:19 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-05-08 12:40 ` [PATCH] x86: introduce a new Linux defined feature flag for PAT support Rene Herman
2008-05-08 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 15:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-08 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 0:21 ` 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6 Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-08 0:30 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-08 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 0:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-08 10:14 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-08 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 21:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 21:54 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-07 22:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:22 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:37 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:40 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 23:02 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:02 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 23:10 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 22:23 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:39 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 22:45 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 23:06 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-07 23:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-07 22:26 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 22:30 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-07 13:00 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 13:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 14:09 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 14:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 19:08 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 22:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-07 19:39 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-05-07 20:06 ` Rene Herman
2008-05-07 20:16 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-07 20:18 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-05-08 4:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
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