Re: 2.6.26, PAT and AMD family 6

[Yinghai Lu]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > On 07-05-08 21:39, Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > > HPA asked about why they used a whitelist instead of a blacklist in [1].
>  > The answer (in [2]) was that those are the CPU's that are guaranteed to
>  > properly support PAT (no known or potential errata). However in [3] Dean
>  > Gaudet complained about the AMD detection code having a limit that the Intel
>  > detection code did not.
>  > >
>  >
>  >  And in that thread both HPA and Ingo Molnar -- two of the three x86 arch
>  >  maintainers -- agreed that a whitelist is the wrong approach, with HPA
>  >  commenting that it lead to vendor lockin. And here I am talkng to an
>  >  Intel employee about why my entire AMD CPU family was excluded.
>  >
>  >  So why is this thing now in mainline with Ingo's sign-off and not a line
>  >  of changelog to explain it?
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > >                     ^^^^^---- Here in Rene's patch...
>  > >
>  >
>  >  Yinghai's.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > > Wouldn't this be better if written the same as the Intel side, ie:
>  > > if (c->x86 >= 0xF && (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model == 7))
>  > > (or even with c->x86_model >= 7  ?)
>
>  i only can access opteron Rev E, Rev F, and Quad core. So i enabled that.
>
>  now, enable other one by one...

may add enable_pat command line, so other guys could test if their
cpus are ok with PAT...

YH
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