Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Sep 19 2022 - 15:10:21 EST


On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In the end this variable doesn't specify which caching types are available,
> but the ways to select/control the caching types.
>
> So what about "memory_caching_select" or "memory_caching_control" instead?

_control sounds like the right thing. As in, which of the memory caching
things the kernel controls. Along with a comment above it what this
exactly is. Yap.

Thx.

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