linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use

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Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:10:05 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In the end this variable doesn't specify which caching types are available,
> but the ways to select/control the caching types.
> 
> So what about "memory_caching_select" or "memory_caching_control" instead?

_control sounds like the right thing. As in, which of the memory caching
things the kernel controls. Along with a comment above it what this
exactly is. Yap.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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