From 9d34cfdf47963905d792ae9c000efa522739abe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Gross Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:15:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Don't rely on VMWare emulating PAT MSR correctly VMWare seems not to emulate the PAT MSR correctly: reaeding MSR_IA32_CR_PAT returns 0 even after writing another value to it. Commit bd809af16e3ab triggers this VMWare bug when the kernel is booted as a VMWare guest. Detect this bug and don't use the read value if it is 0. Fixes: bd809af16e3ab "x86: Enable PAT to use cache mode translation tables" Reported-and-tested-by: Jongman Heo Acked-by: Alok N Kataria Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421039745-14335-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-format-patch failed