x86/mm/pat: Disambiguate PAT-disabled boot messages
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:50:19 +0000 (09:50 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:12:55 +0000 (10:12 +0100)
commit5557e831f68878ef202c0e5296235442cff9b41e
tree2d6d034376bdaead01c145b428da2e9b902630cd
parentaee7f91369a80d2cb9bba198331479cc9bfc0ade
x86/mm/pat: Disambiguate PAT-disabled boot messages

Right now we have these four types of PAT-disabled boot messages:

  x86/PAT: PAT support disabled.
  x86/PAT: PAT MSR is 0, disabled.
  x86/PAT: MTRRs disabled, skipping PAT initialization too.
  x86/PAT: PAT not supported by CPU.

The first message is ambiguous in that it doesn't signal that PAT is off
due to a boot option.

The second message doesn't really make it clear that this is the MSR value
during early bootup and it's the firmware environment that disabled PAT
support.

The fourth message doesn't really make it clear that we disable PAT support
because CONFIG_MTRR is off in the kernel.

Clarify, harmonize and fix the spelling in these user-visible messages:

  x86/PAT: PAT support disabled via boot option.
  x86/PAT: PAT support disabled by the firmware.
  x86/PAT: PAT support disabled because CONFIG_MTRR is disabled in the kernel.
  x86/PAT: PAT not supported by the CPU.

Also add a fifth message, in case PAT support is disabled at build time:

  x86/PAT: PAT support disabled because CONFIG_X86_PAT is disabled in the kernel.

Previously we'd just silently return from pat_init() without giving any indication
that PAT support is off.

Finally, clarify/extend some of the comments related to PAT initialization.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h
arch/x86/mm/pat.c