From ef5fa0ab24b87646c7bc98645acbb4b51fc2acd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Anholt Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:14:21 -0800 Subject: x86: work around PAGE_KERNEL_WC not getting WC in iomap_atomic_prot_pfn. In the absence of PAT, PAGE_KERNEL_WC ends up mapping to a memory type that gets UC behavior even in the presence of a WC MTRR covering the area in question. By swapping to PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS, we can get the actual behavior the caller wanted (WC if you can manage it, UC otherwise). This recovers the 40% performance improvement of using WC in the DRM to upload vertex data. Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin --- arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/mm') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c index d0151d8ce45..ca53224fc56 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ */ #include +#include #include /* Map 'pfn' using fixed map 'type' and protections 'prot' @@ -29,6 +30,15 @@ iomap_atomic_prot_pfn(unsigned long pfn, enum km_type type, pgprot_t prot) pagefault_disable(); + /* + * For non-PAT systems, promote PAGE_KERNEL_WC to PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS. + * PAGE_KERNEL_WC maps to PWT, which translates to uncached if the + * MTRR is UC or WC. UC_MINUS gets the real intention, of the + * user, which is "WC if the MTRR is WC, UC if you can't do that." + */ + if (!pat_enabled && pgprot_val(prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL_WC)) + prot = PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS; + idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id(); vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx); set_pte(kmap_pte-idx, pfn_pte(pfn, prot)); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2