Re: [PATCH] x86: fixed mtrr change WP to WB

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 13:49:24 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:
[PATCH] x86: fixed mtrr change WP to WB

so we modify mptable near below 1M

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

Again:

This does not work on even the majority of all systems.

If the mptable should be modified, it should be copied to kernel memory and modified there. Modifying it in-place is both unsafe and, in general, simply will not work.

Sorry.

NAK on this whole set.

-hpa
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