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x86: Make page cache mode a real type
At the moment there are a lot of places that handle setting or getting the page cache mode by treating the pgprot bits equal to the cache mode. This is only true because there are a lot of assumptions about the setup of the PAT MSR. Otherwise the cache type needs to get translated into pgprot bits and vice versa. This patch tries to prepare for that by introducing a separate type for the cache mode and adding functions to translate between those and pgprot values. To avoid too much performance penalty the translation between cache mode and pgprot values is done via tables which contain the relevant information. Write-back cache mode is hard-wired to be 0, all other modes are configurable via those tables. For large pages there are translation functions as the PAT bit is located at different positions in the ptes of 4k and large pages. Based-on-patch-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com Cc: jbeulich@suse.com Cc: toshi.kani@hp.com Cc: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com Cc: tomi.valkeinen@ti.com Cc: bhelgaas@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415019724-4317-2-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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