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Subject[PATCH 4.6 29/56] x86/pat: Document the PAT initialization sequence
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4.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>

commit b6350c21cfe8aa9d65e189509a23c0ea4b8362c2 upstream.

Update PAT documentation to describe how PAT is initialized under
various configurations.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: elliott@hpe.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1458769323-24491-8-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
Documentation/x86/pat.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/x86/pat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/pat.txt
@@ -196,3 +196,35 @@ Another, more verbose way of getting PAT
"debugpat" boot parameter. With this parameter, various debug messages are
printed to dmesg log.

+PAT Initialization
+------------------
+
+The following table describes how PAT is initialized under various
+configurations. The PAT MSR must be updated by Linux in order to support WC
+and WT attributes. Otherwise, the PAT MSR has the value programmed in it
+by the firmware. Note, Xen enables WC attribute in the PAT MSR for guests.
+
+ MTRR PAT Call Sequence PAT State PAT MSR
+ =========================================================
+ E E MTRR -> PAT init Enabled OS
+ E D MTRR -> PAT init Disabled -
+ D E MTRR -> PAT disable Disabled BIOS
+ D D MTRR -> PAT disable Disabled -
+ - np/E PAT -> PAT disable Disabled BIOS
+ - np/D PAT -> PAT disable Disabled -
+ E !P/E MTRR -> PAT init Disabled BIOS
+ D !P/E MTRR -> PAT disable Disabled BIOS
+ !M !P/E MTRR stub -> PAT disable Disabled BIOS
+
+ Legend
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ E Feature enabled in CPU
+ D Feature disabled/unsupported in CPU
+ np "nopat" boot option specified
+ !P CONFIG_X86_PAT option unset
+ !M CONFIG_MTRR option unset
+ Enabled PAT state set to enabled
+ Disabled PAT state set to disabled
+ OS PAT initializes PAT MSR with OS setting
+ BIOS PAT keeps PAT MSR with BIOS setting
+

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