Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled"

[Toshi Kani]

On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 18:53 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> [Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is
> disabled"] On 07/03/2016 (Mon 16:38) Toshi Kani wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 16:08 -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > > [dropping oe list and lkml since attaching dmesg files.]
> > > 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > > Yes, please send me full dmesg files. ÂSince I do not know your
> > > > original state, the diff does not give me the whole picture.
> > > 
> > > Attached.
> > 
> > Thanks for the dmesg files! ÂAs I suspected, there is no message from
> > pat_init() in both cases. ÂThat is, you are missing the following
> > message,
> > which shows how PAT is configured to support cache attributes.
> > 
> > # dmesg | grep PAT
> > [0.000000] x86/PAT: Configuration [0-7]: WBÂÂWCÂÂUC- UCÂÂWBÂÂWCÂÂUC-
> > WTÂÂ
> 
> Interesting...
> 
> > 
> > It may have seemed working before, but you did not have WC configured
> > to PAT without calling pat_init(). ÂThere was not a proper check in
> > place to detect this error before. ÂCan you please check your code to
> > see what caused this skip of pat_init()? ÂIf you have a git tree, I can
> > take a look as well.Â
> 
> You already have git copies of what I'm running, since it is vanilla
> mainline commits.ÂÂNo code changes at this end whatsoever.ÂÂI did the
> bisect on vanilla mainline.ÂÂAll I took from yocto was their ".config"
> 
> To recap, v4.1-rc5-21-g9dac62909451 works,ÂÂv4.1-rc5-22-g9cd25aac1f44
> fails, and v4.5-rc6 also fails.ÂÂIf pat_init() isn't called then this
> is a bug in current mainline.ÂÂI'll have a look later myself and see
> if I can trace out how we expect to get to pat_init() and how that
> might be skipped inadvertently unless someone beats me to it.

Oh, I see. ÂCan you send me the ".config" file?

Thanks,
-Toshi