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Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled"

From One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled"
Date 2016-03-11 14:30 +0100
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:19:33 +0100
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 02:04:29PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > So, I guess that is a qemu bug?  If there is no real silicon out there
> > that has no MTRR but does claim PAT, then qemu32 is a flawed CPU type?  
> 
> Well, AFAICT, "qemu32" is emulating something PPRO-like:
> 
> #define PPRO_FEATURES (CPUID_FP87 | CPUID_DE | CPUID_PSE | CPUID_TSC | \
>           CPUID_MSR | CPUID_MCE | CPUID_CX8 | CPUID_PGE | CPUID_CMOV | \
>           CPUID_PAT | CPUID_FXSR | CPUID_MMX | CPUID_SSE | CPUID_SSE2 | \
> 	  ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> and that one advertizes PAT but not MTRRs.
> 
> I need to go dig into history to find out what PPRO actually supported.

Pentium Pro has MTRR, PAT came later.

I believe the qemu32 CPU isn't a "real" CPU type therefore.

Alan

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Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-04 19:40 +0100
  Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-04 22:30 +0100
    Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-07 01:40 +0100
      Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-07 16:20 +0100
        Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-07 23:50 +0100
          Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-08 01:00 +0100
            Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-08 01:10 +0100
              Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-08 01:50 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-08 04:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-08 16:50 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-10 15:50 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-10 17:00 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-10 18:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-10 20:10 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-10 20:20 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-10 20:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-03-11 14:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-11 14:50 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-03-11 20:20 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-11 23:20 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> - 2016-03-11 23:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-12 00:50 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-12 13:10 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-10 20:20 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-10 20:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-10 20:40 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2016-03-10 22:10 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-10 23:30 +0100
              Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-08 04:20 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-08 16:30 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> - 2016-03-08 17:10 +0100
                Re: runtime regression with "x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is  disabled" Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-03-08 17:10 +0100

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