Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:38:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] staging: sm750fb: use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc() |
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> > > The same area used for ioremap() is used for the MTRR area. > Convert the driver from using the x86 specific MTRR code to > the architecture agnostic arch_phys_wc_add(). arch_phys_wc_add() > will avoid MTRR if write-combining is available, in order to > take advantage of that also ensure the ioremap'd area is requested > as write-combining. > > There are a few motivations for this: > > a) Take advantage of PAT when available > > b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on > x86 its replaced by PAT > > c) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over > _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit > de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, > use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and > pci_mmap_page_range()") > > The conversion done is expressed by the following Coccinelle > SmPL patch, it additionally required manual intervention to > address all the #ifdery and removal of redundant things which > arch_phys_wc_add() already addresses such as verbose message > about when MTRR fails and doing nothing when we didn't get > an MTRR. > > @ mtrr_found @ > expression index, base, size; > @@ > > -index = mtrr_add(base, size, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1); > +index = arch_phys_wc_add(base, size); > > @ mtrr_rm depends on mtrr_found @ > expression mtrr_found.index, mtrr_found.base, mtrr_found.size; > @@ > > -mtrr_del(index, base, size); > +arch_phys_wc_del(index); > > @ mtrr_rm_zero_arg depends on mtrr_found @ > expression mtrr_found.index; > @@ > > -mtrr_del(index, 0, 0); > +arch_phys_wc_del(index); > > @ mtrr_rm_fb_info depends on mtrr_found @ > struct fb_info *info; > expression mtrr_found.index; > @@ > > -mtrr_del(index, info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len); > +arch_phys_wc_del(index); > > @ ioremap_replace_nocache depends on mtrr_found @ > struct fb_info *info; > expression base, size; > @@ > > -info->screen_base = ioremap_nocache(base, size); > +info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(base, size); > > @ ioremap_replace_default depends on mtrr_found @ > struct fb_info *info; > expression base, size; > @@ > > -info->screen_base = ioremap(base, size); > +info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(base, size); > > Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL > Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> > Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> > Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> > Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> > Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org > Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Hey folks, just a follow up. Can this be considered to be merged?
Luis
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