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author | Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> | 2015-05-26 10:28:10 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-05-27 14:40:58 +0200 |
commit | b73522e0c1be58d3c69b124985b8ccf94e3677f7 (patch) | |
tree | 5089c49a54ea6f1d855303b3810885bb2595c6ee /arch/x86/mm/pat.c | |
parent | 0cc705f56e400764a171055f727d28a48260bb4b (diff) | |
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x86/mm/mtrr: Enhance MTRR checks in kernel mapping helpers
This patch adds the argument 'uniform' to mtrr_type_lookup(),
which gets set to 1 when a given range is covered uniformly by
MTRRs, i.e. the range is fully covered by a single MTRR entry or
the default type.
Change pud_set_huge() and pmd_set_huge() to honor the 'uniform'
flag to see if it is safe to create a huge page mapping in the
range.
This allows them to create a huge page mapping in a range
covered by a single MTRR entry of any memory type. It also
detects a non-optimal request properly. They continue to check
with the WB type since it does not effectively change the
uniform mapping even if a request spans multiple MTRR entries.
pmd_set_huge() logs a warning message to a non-optimal request
so that driver writers will be aware of such a case. Drivers
should make a mapping request aligned to a single MTRR entry
when the range is covered by MTRRs.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
[ Realign, flesh out comments, improve warning message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
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: dave.hansen@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: pebolle@tiscali.nl
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431714237-880-7-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pat.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c index 35af677..372ad42 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c @@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ static unsigned long pat_x_mtrr_type(u64 start, u64 end, * request is for WB. */ if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB) { - u8 mtrr_type; + u8 mtrr_type, uniform; - mtrr_type = mtrr_type_lookup(start, end); + mtrr_type = mtrr_type_lookup(start, end, &uniform); if (mtrr_type != MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK) return _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS; |