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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-08 13:34:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-08 13:34:17 -0800
commitb391738bd1c708fe85592410c6a7c9752689481d (patch)
treee4a27d1b98725dcc42eae65f72a9ac4375420faa /arch/x86/mm/pat.c
parente33c01972239fee4696679ae5f7d1f340f424999 (diff)
parent2fb8f4e6a83dcaec15c1dd0ee8a6f618e7ece7f0 (diff)
Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: pat: Remove ioremap_default() x86: pat: Clean up req_type special case for reserve_memtype() x86: Relegate CONFIG_PAT and CONFIG_MTRR configurability to EMBEDDED
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pat.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pat.c7
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index a81b7e73275..66b55d6e69e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -356,9 +356,6 @@ static int free_ram_pages_type(u64 start, u64 end)
* - _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS
* - _PAGE_CACHE_UC
*
- * req_type will have a special case value '-1', when requester want to inherit
- * the memory type from mtrr (if WB), existing PAT, defaulting to UC_MINUS.
- *
* If new_type is NULL, function will return an error if it cannot reserve the
* region with req_type. If new_type is non-NULL, function will return
* available type in new_type in case of no error. In case of any error
@@ -378,9 +375,7 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type,
if (!pat_enabled) {
/* This is identical to page table setting without PAT */
if (new_type) {
- if (req_type == -1)
- *new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_WB;
- else if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_WC)
+ if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_WC)
*new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS;
else
*new_type = req_type & _PAGE_CACHE_MASK;