Re: [patch 0/4] x86: PAT followup - Incremental changes and bug fixes

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 17:15:34 EST


Andreas Herrmann3 wrote:

Yes, we must fix all aliases or reject the conflicting mapping.
But fixing all aliases might not be that easy.
(I've just seen a panic when using your patch ;-(


Avoiding inconsistent aliases is definitely fundamental to supporting PAT.

-hpa

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