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x86: correct public header's documentation of PAT MSR settings
authorJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:46:54 +0000 (12:46 +0200)
committerJan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:46:54 +0000 (12:46 +0200)
The first (PAT6) column was wrong across the board, and the column for
PAT7 was missing altogether.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
master commit: 3829655bd3ad2b1150bd94955fc6988dec6b98f2
master date: 2013-08-23 09:23:24 +0200

xen/include/public/xen.h

index 3cab74f18e1a5ceac2b580b8d4b31559244ffd10..fe179b9ca2cc6d37d303466042b25ed2a5449cee 100644 (file)
@@ -277,15 +277,15 @@ DEFINE_XEN_GUEST_HANDLE(xen_ulong_t);
  *  refer to Intel SDM 10.12. The PAT allows to set the caching attributes of
  *  pages instead of using MTRRs.
  *
- *  The PAT MSR is as follow (it is a 64-bit value, each entry is 8 bits):
- *             PAT4                 PAT0
- *   +---+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
- *    WC | WC | WB | UC | UC- | WC | WB |  <= Linux
- *   +---+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
- *    WC | WT | WB | UC | UC- | WT | WB |  <= BIOS (default when machine boots)
- *   +---+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
- *    WC | WP | WC | UC | UC- | WT | WB |  <= Xen
- *   +---+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
+ *  The PAT MSR is as follows (it is a 64-bit value, each entry is 8 bits):
+ *                    PAT4                 PAT0
+ *  +-----+-----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
+ *  | UC  | UC- | WC | WB | UC | UC- | WC | WB |  <= Linux
+ *  +-----+-----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
+ *  | UC  | UC- | WT | WB | UC | UC- | WT | WB |  <= BIOS (default when machine boots)
+ *  +-----+-----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
+ *  | rsv | rsv | WP | WC | UC | UC- | WT | WB |  <= Xen
+ *  +-----+-----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+
  *
  *  The lookup of this index table translates to looking up
  *  Bit 7, Bit 4, and Bit 3 of val entry: