When the GART table is unmapped from the kernel direct mappings
during early bootup, make sure we have no leftover cachelines in it.
Note: the clflush done by set_memory_np() was not enough, because
clflush does not work on unmapped pages.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
*/
set_memory_np((unsigned long)__va(iommu_bus_base),
iommu_size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ /*
+ * Tricky. The GART table remaps the physical memory range,
+ * so the CPU wont notice potential aliases and if the memory
+ * is remapped to UC later on, we might surprise the PCI devices
+ * with a stray writeout of a cacheline. So play it sure and
+ * do an explicit, full-scale wbinvd() _after_ having marked all
+ * the pages as Not-Present:
+ */
+ wbinvd();
/*
* Try to workaround a bug (thanks to BenH)