tree 286c3ff171b8bb5c770b82b3965ae6fab59cba7b
parent 1bf1735b478008c30acaff18ec6f4a3ff211c28a
author Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> 1434356898 +0200
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1434619422 +0200

x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled

We are burrying direct access to MTRR code support on
x86 in order to take advantage of PAT. In the future, we
also want to make the default behaviour of ioremap_nocache()
to use strong UC, use of mtrr_add() on those systems
would make write-combining void.

In order to help both enable us to later make strong
UC default and in order to phase out direct MTRR access
code port the driver over to arch_phys_wc_add() and
annotate that the device driver requires systems to
boot with PAT disabled, with the 'nopat' kernel parameter.

This is a workable compromise given that the ipath device
driver powers the old HTX bus cards that only work in
AMD systems, while the newer IB/qib device driver
powers all PCI-e cards. The ipath device driver is
obsolete, hardware is hard to find and because of this
its a reasonable compromise to require users of ipath
to boot with 'nopat'.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se>
Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: infinipath@intel.com
Cc: jbeulich@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mchehab@osg.samsung.com
Cc: toshi.kani@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434053994-2196-4-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434356898-25135-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>