Re: [PATCH] X86: fix typo PAT to X86_PAT

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 07:32:01 EST



* Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > thanks. But, i think we should rather do the following: if X86_PAT
> > is eanbled then /proc/mtrr should be read-only. There's no problem
> > _looking_ at MTRR contents, as long as we do not try to modify them.
> > Hm?
>
> anyway
>
> depends on !PAT
>
> need to be removed.
>
> it seems when PAT is used, some code still touch MTRR.

you mean modifies MTRRs? Which code is that? (besides the /proc/mtrr
userspace API)

Ingo
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