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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-22 16:17:05 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-23 18:07:45 -0800
commit75a048119e76540d73132cfc8e0fa0c0a8bb6c83 (patch)
tree2a4d88809efae435e6fe8e33e630f92d76742c9d /arch/x86/kernel/cpu
parentx86: clean up stray space in <asm/processor.h> (diff)
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x86: handle PAT more like other CPU features
Impact: Cleanup When PAT was originally introduced, it was handled specially for a few reasons: - PAT bugs are hard to track down, so we wanted to maintain a whitelist of CPUs. - The i386 and x86-64 CPUID code was not yet unified. Both of these are now obsolete, so handle PAT like any other features, including ordinary feature blacklisting due to known bugs. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c34
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c12
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c
index 2cf23634b6d9..4e581fdc0a5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/addon_cpuid_features.c
@@ -143,37 +143,3 @@ void __cpuinit detect_extended_topology(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
return;
#endif
}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAT
-void __cpuinit validate_pat_support(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
-{
- if (!cpu_has_pat)
- pat_disable("PAT not supported by CPU.");
-
- switch (c->x86_vendor) {
- case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
- /*
- * There is a known erratum on Pentium III and Core Solo
- * and Core Duo CPUs.
- * " Page with PAT set to WC while associated MTRR is UC
- * may consolidate to UC "
- * Because of this erratum, it is better to stick with
- * setting WC in MTRR rather than using PAT on these CPUs.
- *
- * Enable PAT WC only on P4, Core 2 or later CPUs.
- */
- if (c->x86 > 0x6 || (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model >= 15))
- return;
-
- pat_disable("PAT WC disabled due to known CPU erratum.");
- return;
-
- case X86_VENDOR_AMD:
- case X86_VENDOR_CENTAUR:
- case X86_VENDOR_TRANSMETA:
- return;
- }
-
- pat_disable("PAT disabled. Not yet verified on this CPU type.");
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index 83492b1f93b1..0f8656361e04 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -570,8 +570,6 @@ static void __init early_identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
if (this_cpu->c_early_init)
this_cpu->c_early_init(c);
- validate_pat_support(c);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
c->cpu_index = boot_cpu_id;
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
index 8ea6929e974c..20ce03acf04b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c
@@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ static void __cpuinit early_init_intel(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_NONSTOP_TSC);
}
+ /*
+ * There is a known erratum on Pentium III and Core Solo
+ * and Core Duo CPUs.
+ * " Page with PAT set to WC while associated MTRR is UC
+ * may consolidate to UC "
+ * Because of this erratum, it is better to stick with
+ * setting WC in MTRR rather than using PAT on these CPUs.
+ *
+ * Enable PAT WC only on P4, Core 2 or later CPUs.
+ */
+ if (c->x86 == 6 && c->x86_model < 15)
+ clear_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_PAT);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32