x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx, use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index bd5e05c..60bcb5b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -777,14 +777,20 @@
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);