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Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag

To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 21:10:05 +0200
Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, x86@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 19:10:27 +0000
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:10:29AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> In the end this variable doesn't specify which caching types are available,
> but the ways to select/control the caching types.
> 
> So what about "memory_caching_select" or "memory_caching_control" instead?

_control sounds like the right thing. As in, which of the memory caching
things the kernel controls. Along with a comment above it what this
exactly is. Yap.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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References:
- [PATCH v3 00/10] x86: make pat and mtrr independent from each other
  - From: Juergen Gross
- [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag
  - From: Juergen Gross
- Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag
  - From: Borislav Petkov
- Re: [PATCH v3 03/10] x86/mtrr: replace use_intel() with a local flag
  - From: Juergen Gross

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