[RFC/PATCH v2 0/8] Clean up write-combining MTRR addition

[Jerome Glisse]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> wrote:
> A fair number of drivers (mostly graphics) add write-combining MTRRs.
> Most ignore errors and most add the MTRR even on PAT systems which don't
> need to use MTRRs.

This comment is wrong, as i said we need MTRR on PAT system for VRAM.

Cheers,
Jerome

> This series adds new functions arch_phys_wc_{add,del} that, on PAT-less
> x86 systems with MTRRs, add MTRRs and report errors, and that do nothing
> otherwise.  (Other architectures, if any, with a similar mechanism could
> implement them.)
>
> I've only tested the radeon driver, since I don't have test hardware
> easily available for the other drivers.
>
> Benefits include:
>  - Simpler code
>  - No more complaints about MTRR conflict warnings on PAT systems
>  - Eventual unexporting of the MTRR API?
>
> This series eliminates about half of the mtrr_add calls in drivers/.
>
> Changes from v1:
>  - Helpers renamed
>  - Lots of bugs fixed
>
> The series is also at:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git/log/?h=mtrr_cleanup/rfc_v2
>
> Andy Lutomirski (8):
>   Add arch_phys_wc_{add,del} to manipulate WC MTRRs if needed
>   drm (ast,cirrus,mgag200,nouveau,savage,vmwgfx): Remove
>     drm_mtrr_{add,del}
>   drm: Update drm_addmap and drm_mmap to use PAT WC instead of MTRRs
>   drm,agpgart: Use pgprot_writecombine for AGP maps and make the MTRR
>     optional
>   i915: Use arch_phys_wc_{add,del}
>   radeon: Switch to arch_phys_wc_add and add a missing ..._del
>   uvesafb: Clean up MTRR code
>   drm: Remove mtrr_add and mtrr_del fallback hack for non-MTRR systems
>
>  Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt           | 16 +++-----
>  arch/x86/include/asm/io.h              |  7 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/mtrr.h            |  5 ++-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c        | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/char/agp/frontend.c            |  8 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_ttm.c          | 13 ++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/cirrus_ttm.c    | 15 ++------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_bufs.c             | 17 +++++----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c              |  8 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c             | 10 +----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c               | 22 +++++------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c        | 44 +++------------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_ttm.c  | 14 ++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_ttm.c  | 13 ++-----
>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_object.c |  5 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/savage/savage_bci.c    | 43 ++++++++-------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/savage/savage_drv.h    |  5 +--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c    | 10 ++---
>  drivers/video/uvesafb.c                | 70 +++++++++-------------------------
>  include/drm/drmP.h                     | 34 +----------------
>  include/drm/drm_os_linux.h             | 16 --------
>  include/linux/io.h                     | 25 ++++++++++++
>  include/video/uvesafb.h                |  1 +
>  23 files changed, 181 insertions(+), 268 deletions(-)
>
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> 1.8.1.4
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