[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 02/47] x86: mtrr: generalize run time disabling of MTRR
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:40:17PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 16:17 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > : > > @@ -734,6 +742,7 @@ void __init mtrr_bp_init(void) > > } > > > > if (mtrr_if) { > > + mtrr_enabled = true; > > set_num_var_ranges(); > > init_table(); > > if (use_intel()) { > get_mtrr_state(); > > After setting mtrr_enabled to true, get_mtrr_state() reads > MSR_MTRRdefType and sets 'mtrr_state.enabled', which also indicates if > MTRRs are enabled or not on the system. So, potentially, we could have > a case that mtrr_enabled is set to true, but mtrr_state.enabled is set > to disabled when MTRRs are disabled by BIOS. Thanks for the review, in this case then we should update mtrr_enabled to false. > ps. > I recently cleaned up this part of the MTRR code in the patch below, > which is currently available in the -mm & -next trees. > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/24/1063 Great I will rebase and work with that and try to address this consideration you have raised. Luis _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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