On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> + /*
> + * The cpu_entry_area is shared between the user and kernel
> + * page tables. All of its ptes can safely be global.
> + */
> + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE))
> + pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL);
So this is where the quesion of "why is this conditional" is valid.
We could set _PAGE_GLOBAL unconditionally, not bothering with testing
X86_FEATURE_PGE.
Linus
