On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:14 PM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > On 09/10/2014 12:30 PM, Toshi Kani wrote: >> >> When WT is unavailable due to the PAT errata, it does not fail but gets >> redirected to UC-. Similarly, when PAT is disabled, WT gets redirected >> to UC- as well. >> > > But on pre-PAT hardware you can still do WT. >
Using MTRRs? /me shudders, although I suppose this would be okay for NV-DIMMs as long as you map the whole thing WT. One of these days I'll finish excising mtrr_add from everything outside arch/x86. I already killed it in all modern graphics drivers :) --Andy > -hpa > -- Andy Lutomirski AMA Capital Management, LLC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
