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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:03:44 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT * Pallipadi, Venkatesh <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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