Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] arch/x86/mm/pat: export pat_enabled()

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 01:25:17PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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