Re: [PATCH v2] x86: UV SGI, Don't track GRU space in PAT

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 17:22:08 EST


On 11/17/2009 01:23 PM, Jack Steiner wrote:
> GRU space is always mapped as WB in the page table. There is
> no need to track the mappings in the PAT. This also eliminates
> the "freeing invalid memtype" messages when the GRU space is unmapped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Version 2 with changes suggested by Ingo (at least I think I understood what
> he wanted).

Looks good, except I think is_untracked_pat_range() probably should me a
member in the x86_platform structure -- as, probably, should
x86_platform_ipi_callback.

-hpa
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