Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 May 2015 17:29:17 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] arch/x86/mm/pat: export pat_enabled() |
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:25:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> > > Two Linux device drivers cannot work with PAT and the work > required to make them work is significant. There is not > enough motivation to convert these drivers over to use > PAT properly, the compromise reached is to let drivers > that cannot be ported to PAT check if PAT was enabled > and if so fail on probe with a recommendation to boot > with the "nopat" kernel parameter. > > Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net> > Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> > Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> > --- > arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Applied, thanks.
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