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

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 authored and Ingo Molnar committed Apr 30, 2008
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20 changes: 16 additions & 4 deletions arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
Expand Up @@ -176,11 +176,11 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
/*
* Do not fallback to certain memory types with certain
* requested type:
* - request is uncached, return cannot be write-back
* - request is uncached, return cannot be write-combine
* - request is uc-, return cannot be write-back
* - request is uc-, return cannot be write-combine
* - request is write-combine, return cannot be write-back
*/
if ((prot_val == _PAGE_CACHE_UC &&
if ((prot_val == _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS &&
(new_prot_val == _PAGE_CACHE_WB ||
new_prot_val == _PAGE_CACHE_WC)) ||
(prot_val == _PAGE_CACHE_WC &&
Expand All @@ -201,6 +201,9 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
default:
prot = PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE;
break;
case _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS:
prot = PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS;
break;
case _PAGE_CACHE_WC:
prot = PAGE_KERNEL_WC;
break;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -255,7 +258,16 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
*/
void __iomem *ioremap_nocache(resource_size_t phys_addr, unsigned long size)
{
return __ioremap_caller(phys_addr, size, _PAGE_CACHE_UC,
/*
* Ideally, this should be:
* pat_wc_enabled ? _PAGE_CACHE_UC : _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS;
*
* Till we fix all X drivers to use ioremap_wc(), we will use
* UC MINUS.
*/
unsigned long val = _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS;

return __ioremap_caller(phys_addr, size, val,
__builtin_return_address(0));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap_nocache);
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
Expand Up @@ -777,14 +777,20 @@ static inline int change_page_attr_clear(unsigned long addr, int numpages,

int _set_memory_uc(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
{
/*
* for now UC MINUS. see comments in ioremap_nocache()
*/
return change_page_attr_set(addr, numpages,
__pgprot(_PAGE_CACHE_UC));
__pgprot(_PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS));
}

int set_memory_uc(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
{
/*
* for now UC MINUS. see comments in ioremap_nocache()
*/
if (reserve_memtype(addr, addr + numpages * PAGE_SIZE,
_PAGE_CACHE_UC, NULL))
_PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS, NULL))
return -EINVAL;

return _set_memory_uc(addr, numpages);
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12 changes: 9 additions & 3 deletions arch/x86/pci/i386.c
Expand Up @@ -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;

Expand All @@ -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);
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