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Message-ID: <86802c440809300906i2ef08065o1f9cf9999e39cc2f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:06:01 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: mtrr_cleanup prepare to make gran_size to less 1M

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>
>> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Applied series to tip:x86/mtrr, thanks!
>>
>> tested them and pushed it out into tip/master.
>
> btw., now that we've got wide enough exposure (a kernel release), could
> we please flip around the default of CONFIG_MTRR_SANITIZER and make it
> default-y? This feature should only produce a worse result if there's a
> bug in that code, right?

it will compare the exact mem range between the updated and original,
so it should be safe to set it to default-y.

YH
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