Re: pat support in the kernel

mikpe@csd.uu.se
Tue, 20 May 2003 21:30:35 +0200


Terence Ripperda <tripperda@nvidia.com>, <tripperda@nvidia.com> writes:
> Hello all,
>
> I've discussed adding Page Attribute Table (PAT) support to the kernel w/ a few developers offline. They were very supportive and suggested I bring the discussion to lkml so others could get involved.

Not that I disagre with utilising the PAT, but I don't see anything in this code to
deal with the widespread PAT indexing erratum in Intel's processors. I don't have
the errata sheets here, but it definitely affected the PIIIs and I think also some P4s.
(Large pages ignoring PAT index bit 2, or something like that.)

/Mikael
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