Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:03:44 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT |
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* Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
> Ingo, can you remove this PAT MTRR exclusion.
yeah, already did that.
> Actually, this exclusion will not work at all with the current code. > Infact it should be PAT selects MTRR, for the current code. As > pat_init() is called during mtrr init as the rules for how to change > PAT and how to change MTRR are same. Further, MTRR is always required > on SMP, as we read the MTRR setting from boot CPU and set it on Aps at > boot time. We should only remove the /proc/mtrr write permissions with > CONFIG_PAT. We need to deprecate it for a while before that...
ok.
Ingo
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