Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: avoid playing with directmap when self-snoop can be relied upon

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 03:51:18PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The set of systems affected by XSA-345 would have been smaller is we had
> this in place already: When the processor is capable of dealing with
> mismatched cacheability, there's no extra work we need to carry out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>

I guess it's not worth using the alternative framework to patch this
up at boot in order to avoid the call in the first place?

Thanks, Roger.