Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86/PAT: Fix Xorg regression on CPUs that don't support PAT

[Junichi Nomura]

On 05/31/17 02:59, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
>>> 2. use the PAT patch and revert the change to the function pat_ap_init
>>> - i.e. change it to the original:
>>> static void pat_ap_init(u64 pat)
>>> {
>>> 	if (!boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PAT)) {
>>
>> Joy.
> 
> It is interesting - does it mean that the boot cpu does have PAT and the 
> secondary CPUs don't?

It seems pat_init() is called twice for boot cpu, from mtrr_bp_pat_init()
and generic_set_all(). The 2nd call ends up calling pat_ap_init() and it's
before boot_cpu_data is copied to cpu_data[0].

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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation / NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.