Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:51:41 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] x86/mm/pat: Add pat_disable() interface
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:40:45PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> Will change to "Prevent the OS from initializing the PAT MSR".
> 
> I wanted to clarify that "disable" does not mean to disable PAT MSR.

How do you "disable PAT MSR" ?

I think you're overdocumenting this. pat_disable() is as clear as day
what it does. It doesn't need any commenting...

> I've run checkpatch.pl and thought it was OK to have this warning (instead
> of a >80 warning) since the error message part was not split.  The
> "attempting" part is for debugging and its string is passed from the
> caller. 

We always put the quoted strings on a single line for easier grepping.
Forget the 80-cols rule.

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