Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86, CPU: Fixup tlb_flushall_shift formatting

From: Alex Shi
Date: Sun Aug 05 2012 - 22:37:22 EST


On 08/04/2012 12:37 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
>
> The TLB characteristics appeared like this in dmesg:
>
> [ 0.065817] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 512, 2MB 1024, 4MB 512
> [ 0.065817] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 1024, 2MB 1024, 4MB 512
> [ 0.065817] tlb_flushall_shift is 0xffffffff
>
> where tlb_flushall_shift is actually -1 but dumped as a hex number.
> However, the Kconfig option CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH and the rest of the
> code treats this as a signed decimal and states "If you set it to -1,
> the code flushes the whole TLB unconditionally."
>
> So, fix its formatting in accordance with the other references to it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>


Acked-by Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxx>
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