linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/16] x86/mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR

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Date:   Wed, 3 May 2023 11:14:25 -0700
From:   Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     <mikelley@...rosoft.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        "Wei Liu" <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
        "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/16] x86/mtrr: fix handling with PAT but without MTRR

> Juergen Gross (16):
>   x86/mtrr: remove physical address size calculation
>   x86/mtrr: replace some constants with defines
>   x86/mtrr: support setting MTRR state for software defined MTRRs
>   x86/hyperv: set MTRR state when running as SEV-SNP Hyper-V guest
>   x86/xen: set MTRR state when running as Xen PV initial domain
>   x86/mtrr: replace vendor tests in MTRR code
>   x86/mtrr: have only one set_mtrr() variant
>   x86/mtrr: move 32-bit code from mtrr.c to legacy.c
>   x86/mtrr: allocate mtrr_value array dynamically
>   x86/mtrr: add get_effective_type() service function
>   x86/mtrr: construct a memory map with cache modes
>   x86/mtrr: add mtrr=debug command line option
>   x86/mtrr: use new cache_map in mtrr_type_lookup()
>   x86/mtrr: don't let mtrr_type_lookup() return MTRR_TYPE_INVALID
>   x86/mm: only check uniform after calling mtrr_type_lookup()
>   x86/mtrr: remove unused code
> 

A Nit -> Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst suggests:
"The condensed patch description in the subject line should start with a
uppercase letter and ..."

-Sohil