x86/mm/pat: Use 7th PAT MSR slot for Write-Through PAT type

Assign Write-Through type to the PA7 slot in the PAT MSR when
the processor is not affected by PAT errata. The PA7 slot is
chosen to improve robustness in the presence of errata that
might cause the high PAT bit to be ignored. This way a buggy PA7
slot access will hit the PA3 slot, which is UC, so at worst we
lose performance without causing a correctness issue.

The following Intel processors are affected by the PAT errata.

  Errata               CPUID
  ----------------------------------------------------
  Pentium 2, A52       family 0x6, model 0x5
  Pentium 3, E27       family 0x6, model 0x7, 0x8
  Pentium 3 Xenon, G26 family 0x6, model 0x7, 0x8, 0xa
  Pentium M, Y26       family 0x6, model 0x9
  Pentium M 90nm, X9   family 0x6, model 0xd
  Pentium 4, N46       family 0xf, model 0x0

Instead of making sharp boundary checks, we remain conservative
and exclude all Pentium 2, 3, M and 4 family processors. For
those, _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT is redirected to UC- per the default
setup in __cachemode2pte_tbl[].

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433187393-22688-2-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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