[PATCH 4/5 v5] arc: Add our own implementation of fb_pgprotect()
Alexey Brodkin
Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com
Tue Apr 5 18:35:05 UTC 2016
Hi Vineet,
> From: Alexey Brodkin [abrodkin at synopsys.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 2:36 PM
> To: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; Alexey Brodkin; Vineet Gupta; linux-snps-arc at lists.infradead.org
> Subject: [PATCH 4/5 v5] arc: Add our own implementation of fb_pgprotect()
>
> During mmaping of frame-buffer pages to user-space
> fb_protect() is called to set proper page settings.
>
> In case of ARC we need to mark pages that are mmaped to
> user as uncached because of 2 reasons:
> * Huge amount of data if passing through data cache will
> thrash cache a lot making cache almost useless for other
> less traffic hungry processes.
> * Data written by user in FB will be immediately available for
> hardware (such as PGU etc) without requirements to flush data
> cache regularly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
> Cc: linux-snps-arc at lists.infradead.org
Could you please pick up this patch in your tree so in DRM-related series won't be external dependencies any longer?
-Alexey
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