linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5 v2] x86: PAT: make pat_x_mtrr

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Message-ID: <20080618095128.GB15255@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:51:28 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@....com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Suresh B Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5 v2] x86: PAT: make pat_x_mtrr_type() more readable


* Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> Clean up over-complications in pat_x_mtrr_type(). And if 
> reserve_memtype() ignores stray req_type bits when pat_enabled, it's 
> better to mask them off when not also.

applied, to tip/x86/pat, thanks Hugh. Andreas, if there's any other 
clean up you can think of here please send a delta patch.

	Ingo
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