From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 07:34:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/17] video: fbdev: atmel_lcdfb: use ioremap_wc() for framebuffer
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Le 21/04/2015 22:16, Luis R. Rodriguez a =E9crit :
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
>=20
> The driver doesn't use mtrr_add() or arch_phys_wc_add() but
> since we know the framebuffer is isolated already on an
> ioremap() we can take advantage of write combining for
> performance where possible.
>=20
> In this case there are a few motivations for this:
>=20
> a) Take advantage of PAT when available
>=20
> b) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
>    _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
>    de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
>    use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
>    pci_mmap_page_range()")
>=20
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>

Seems okay:
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>

Thanks for having taking care of atmel_lcdfb driver.
Bye,


> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>=20
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/atme=
l_lcdfb.c
> index 94a8d04..abadc49 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> @@ -1266,7 +1266,8 @@ static int __init atmel_lcdfb_probe(struct platform=
_device *pdev)
>  			goto stop_clk;
>  		}
> =20
> -		info->screen_base =3D ioremap(info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len=
);
> +		info->screen_base =3D ioremap_wc(info->fix.smem_start,
> +					       info->fix.smem_len);
>  		if (!info->screen_base) {
>  			ret =3D -ENOMEM;
>  			goto release_intmem;
>=20


--=20
Nicolas Ferre