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| author | Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> | 2009-01-23 14:14:21 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-01-26 11:14:27 +0100 |
| commit | ef5fa0ab24b87646c7bc98645acbb4b51fc2acd4 (patch) | |
| tree | 212ee811a6271eb77e887d4f63817c01606ae8a2 /arch | |
| parent | e1b4d1143651fb3838be1117785b6e0386fa151f (diff) | |
x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn.
In the absence of PAT, PAGE_KERNEL_WC ends up mapping to a memory type that
gets UC behavior even in the presence of a WC MTRR covering the area in
question. By swapping to PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS, we can get the actual
behavior the caller wanted (WC if you can manage it, UC otherwise).
This recovers the 40% performance improvement of using WC in the DRM
to upload vertex data.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c index d0151d8ce452..ca53224fc56c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ */ #include <asm/iomap.h> +#include <asm/pat.h> #include <linux/module.h> /* Map 'pfn' using fixed map 'type' and protections 'prot' @@ -29,6 +30,15 @@ iomap_atomic_prot_pfn(unsigned long pfn, enum km_type type, pgprot_t prot) pagefault_disable(); + /* + * For non-PAT systems, promote PAGE_KERNEL_WC to PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS. + * PAGE_KERNEL_WC maps to PWT, which translates to uncached if the + * MTRR is UC or WC. UC_MINUS gets the real intention, of the + * user, which is "WC if the MTRR is WC, UC if you can't do that." + */ + if (!pat_enabled && pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL_WC)) + prot = PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS; + idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id(); vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx); set_pte(kmap_pte-idx, pfn_pte(pfn, prot)); |