x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled
In the case when PAT is disabled on the command line with
"nopat" or when virtualization doesn't support PAT (correctly) -
see
9d34cfdf4796 ("x86: Don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly").
we emulate it using the PWT and PCD cache attribute bits. Get
rid of boot_pat_state while at it.
Based on a conglomerate patch from Toshi Kani.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-3-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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