Re: [PATCH 09/11] x86/pti: enable global pages for shared areas

Linus Torvalds writes: On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:

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+ pte = pte_set_flags(pte, _PAGE_GLOBAL); So this is where the quesion of "why is this conditional" is valid. 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.
X86_FEATURE_PGE.
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