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x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and pci_mmap_page_range()

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Use UC_MINUS for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() instead of strong UC.
Once all the X drivers move to ioremap_wc(), we can go back to strong
UC semantics for ioremap() and ioremap_nocache().

To avoid attribute aliasing issues, pci_mmap_page_range() will also
use UC_MINUS for default non write-combining mapping request.

Next steps:
	a) change all the video drivers using ioremap() or ioremap_nocache()
	   and adding WC MTTR using mttr_add() to ioremap_wc()

	b) for strict usage, we can go back to strong uc semantics
	   for ioremap() and ioremap_nocache() after some grace period for
	   completing step-a.

	c) user level X server needs to use the appropriate method for setting
	   up WC mapping (like using resourceX_wc sysfs file instead of
	   adding MTRR for WC and using /dev/mem or resourceX under /sys)

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Suresh Siddha
2008-04-25 17:07:22 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent b9b39bfba5
commit de33c442ed
3 changed files with 33 additions and 9 deletions
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arch/x86/pci/i386.c
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@@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ int pci_mmap_page_range(struct pci_dev *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
prot = pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot);
if (pat_wc_enabled && write_combine)
prot |= _PAGE_CACHE_WC;
else if (pat_wc_enabled)
/*
* ioremap() and ioremap_nocache() defaults to UC MINUS for now.
* To avoid attribute conflicts, request UC MINUS here
* aswell.
*/
prot |= _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS;
else if (boot_cpu_data.x86 > 3)
prot |= _PAGE_CACHE_UC;
@@ -319,9 +326,8 @@ int pci_mmap_page_range(struct pci_dev *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* - request is uncached, return cannot be write-combine
* - request is write-combine, return cannot be write-back
*/
if ((flags == _PAGE_CACHE_UC &&
(new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB ||
new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WC)) ||
if ((flags == _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS &&
(new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB)) ||
(flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WC &&
new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB)) {
free_memtype(addr, addr+len);