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>
This commit is contained in:
H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-22 16:17:05 -08:00
parent b1882e68d1
commit 75a048119e
5 changed files with 32 additions and 51 deletions

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@@ -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