Juergen Gross 9d34cfdf47 x86: Don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly ...

VMWare seems not to emulate the PAT MSR correctly: reaeding
MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns 0 even after writing another value to it.

Commit bd809af16e triggers this VMWare bug when the kernel is
booted as a VMWare guest.

Detect this bug and don't use the read value if it is 0.

Fixes: bd809af16e "x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables"
Reported-and-tested-by: Jongman Heo <jongman.heo@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421039745-14335-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

2015-01-20 14:33:45 +01:00

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