x86/mtrr: Fix Xorg crashes in Qemu sessions
A Xorg failure on qemu32 was reported as a regression [1] caused by commit 9cd25aac ("x86/mm/pat: Emulate PAT when it is disabled"). This patch fixes the Xorg crash. Negative effects of this regression were the following two failures [2] in Xorg on QEMU with QEMU CPU model "qemu32" (-cpu qemu32), which were triggered by the fact that its virtual CPU does not support MTRRs. #1. copy_process() failed in the check in reserve_pfn_range() copy_process copy_mm dup_mm dup_mmap copy_page_range track_pfn_copy reserve_pfn_range A WC map request was tracked as WC in memtype, which set a PTE as UC (pgprot) per __cachemode2pte_tbl[]. This led to this error in reserve_pfn_range() called from track_pfn_copy(), which obtained a pgprot from a PTE. It converts pgprot to page_cache_mode, which does not necessarily result in the original page_cache_mode since __cachemode2pte_tbl[] redirects multiple types to UC. #...
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