[PATCH 1/3] x86/pat: export io memory reserve/free api.

Edward O'Callaghan funfunctor at folklore1984.net
Tue Oct 18 07:22:51 UTC 2016


NACK,

I think you want to use 'iomap_create_wc()' instead to avoid aliasing.

Kind Regards,
Edward.

On 10/18/2016 05:13 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> 
> These functions are needed for gpu/ttm drivers to reserve the
> VRAM area as write combined. In a lot of places we don't ioremap
> but still need to insert pfn from it into a VMA using vm_insert_mixed,
> but a recent change in mixed insertion means we need to reserve
> VRAM as WC upfront, so we need these APIs exported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> index 170cc4f..5ce2fbb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
> @@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ out_free:
>  out_err:
>  	return ret;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(io_reserve_memtype);
>  
>  /**
>   * io_free_memtype - Release a memory type mapping for a region of memory
> @@ -729,6 +730,7 @@ void io_free_memtype(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end)
>  {
>  	free_memtype(start, end);
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(io_free_memtype);
>  
>  pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
>  				unsigned long size, pgprot_t vma_prot)
> 

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