Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation

[Andi Kleen]

> Are these ones (below) good CPU to worry about? That's slightly 
> off-topic as they are KVM guests, but still, the guest kernel seems to 
> disable PAT (unless I'm mistaken).

To my knowledge the only CPUs with broken PAT are some very old Pentium
Pros dating from back the time when PAT was new and noone used it.
On those it should be disabled or the high bits not used.

The kernel is overall too conservative with its white list.

Today a lot of other common operating systems use PAT extensively,
so in general it works on the hardware level.

-Andi
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