From: Venki Pallipadi Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 20:05:19 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86/PCI: X86_PAT & mprotect X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc3~70^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77db9885646f8a88214ea482988d41f8f73630f4;p=linux-2.6 x86/PCI: X86_PAT & mprotect Some versions of X used the mprotect workaround to change caching type from UC to WB, so that it can then use mtrr to program WC for that region [1]. Change the mmap of pci space through /sys or /proc interfaces from UC to UC_MINUS. With this change, X will not need to use mprotect workaround to get WC type since the MTRR mapping type will be honored. The bug in mprotect that clobbers PAT bits is fixed in a follow on patch. So, this X workaround will stop working as well. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes --- diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c index 8af0f0bae2..10fb308fde 100644 --- a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c +++ b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c @@ -301,15 +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) + else if (pat_wc_enabled || boot_cpu_data.x86 > 3) /* * 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; vma->vm_page_prot = __pgprot(prot);