[tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables

[tip-bot for Toshi Kani]

Commit-ID:  d5dc861bd601b546ae6b36af54485142cca36a5e
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d5dc861bd601b546ae6b36af54485142cca36a5e
Author:     Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:06:11 -0600
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:26:12 +0200

x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables

Add comments to the cachemode translation tables to clarify that
the default values are set as minimal supported mode, which are
necessary to handle WC and WT fallback to UC- when they are not
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437588371-28223-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@xxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init.c b/arch/x86/mm/init.c
index 8533b46..1d8a83d 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.
  *
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