Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] mtrr, mm, x86: Enhance MTRR checks for KVA huge page mapping

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon May 18 2015 - 16:01:29 EST


On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 01:31:59PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> Well, #2 and #3 are independent. That is, uniform can be set regardless

Not #2 and #3 above - the original #2 and #3 ones. I've written them out
detailed to show what I mean.

> The caller is responsible for verifying the conditions that are safe to
> create huge page.

How is the caller ever going to be able to do anything about it?

Regardless, I'd prefer to not duplicate comments and rather put a short
sentence pointing the reader to the comments over mtrr_type_lookup()
where this all is being explained in detail.

I'll fix it up.

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Boris.

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