Patch "x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-pat-add-pat_disable-interface.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:41:58 -0600
Subject: x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface

From: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>

commit 224bb1e5d67ba0f2872c98002d6a6f991ac6fd4a upstream.

In preparation for fixing a regression caused by:

9cd25aac1f44 ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled")

... PAT needs to provide an interface that prevents the OS from initializing the PAT MSR.

PAT MSR initialization must be done on all CPUs using the specific sequence of operations defined in the Intel SDM. This requires MTRRs to be enabled since pat_init() is called as part of MTRR init from mtrr_rendezvous_handler().

Make pat_disable() as the interface that prevents the OS from initializing the PAT MSR. MTRR will call this interface when it cannot provide the SDM-defined sequence to initialize PAT.

This also assures that pat_disable() called from pat_bsp_init() will set the PAT table properly when CPU does not support PAT.

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pat.h |    1 +
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c          |   13 ++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <asm/pgtable_types.h>
 
 bool pat_enabled(void);
+void pat_disable(const char *reason);
 extern void pat_init(void);
 void __init_cache_modes(u64);
 

@@ -40,11 +40,22 @@
 static bool boot_cpu_done;
 
 static int __read_mostly __pat_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_PAT);
+static void init_cache_modes(void);
 
-static inline void pat_disable(const char *reason)
+void pat_disable(const char *reason)
 {
+	if (!__pat_enabled)
+		return;
+
+	if (boot_cpu_done) {
+		WARN_ONCE(1, "x86/PAT: PAT cannot be disabled after initialization\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	__pat_enabled = 0;
 	pr_info("x86/PAT: %s\n", reason);
+
+	init_cache_modes();
 }
 
 static int __init nopat(char *str)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-replace-cpu_has_pat-with-boot_cpu_has.patch queue-4.6/x86-mtrr-fix-xorg-crashes-in-qemu-sessions.patch queue-4.6/libnvdimm-pfn-dax-fix-initialization-vs-autodetect-for-mode-alignment.patch queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-add-support-of-non-default-pat-msr-setting.patch queue-4.6/x86-xen-pat-remove-pat-table-init-code-from-xen.patch queue-4.6/x86-mtrr-fix-pat-init-handling-when-mtrr-is-disabled.patch queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-add-pat_disable-interface.patch queue-4.6/x86-mm-pat-fix-bug_on-in-mmap_mem-on-qemu-i386.patch queue-4.6/x86-pat-document-the-pat-initialization-sequence.patch