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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@@ -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