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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Well, we don't use the high bits exactly for this reason.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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