linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

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Date:	Thu, 8 May 2008 00:39:18 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

On Wed 2008-05-07 15:23:46, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >  2) HPA said it was bad idea
> 
> hpa said white list is not a good idea.

And guess what your patch is doing?

+       switch (c->x86_vendor) {
+       case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
+               if (c->x86 >= 0xf && c->x86 <= 0x11)
+                       set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
+               break;
+       case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
+               if (c->x86 == 0xF || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >=
15))
+                       set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
+               break;
+       }

Seems like a whitelist to me. Will break with future CPUs.
									Pavel
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