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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/init.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c index 8533b46e6bee..1d8a83df153a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init.c @@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ /* * Tables translating between page_cache_type_t and pte encoding. * - * Minimal supported modes are defined statically, they are modified - * during bootup if more supported cache modes are available. + * The default values are defined statically as minimal supported mode; + * WC and WT fall back to UC-. pat_init() updates these values to support + * more cache modes, WC and WT, when it is safe to do so. See pat_init() + * for the details. Note, __early_ioremap() used during early boot-time + * takes pgprot_t (pte encoding) and does not use these tables. * * Index into __cachemode2pte_tbl[] is the cachemode. * |