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authorToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>2015-05-26 10:28:10 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-05-27 14:40:58 +0200
commitb73522e0c1be58d3c69b124985b8ccf94e3677f7 (patch)
tree5089c49a54ea6f1d855303b3810885bb2595c6ee /arch/x86/mm/pat.c
parent0cc705f56e400764a171055f727d28a48260bb4b (diff)
downloadlinux-b73522e0c1be58d3c69b124985b8ccf94e3677f7.tar.bz2
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.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index 35af6771a95a..372ad422c2c3 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;