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* [PATCH v3 0/5] Support Write-Through mapping on x86
@ 2014-09-17 19:48 Toshi Kani
  2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] x86, mm, pat: Set WT to PA7 slot of PAT MSR Toshi Kani
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Toshi Kani @ 2014-09-17 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hpa, tglx, mingo, akpm, arnd
  Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, jgross, stefan.bader, luto, hmh, yigal,
	konrad.wilk

This patchset adds support of Write-Through (WT) mapping on x86.
The study below shows that using WT mapping may be useful for
non-volatile memory.

  http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2012/HPL-2012-236.pdf

This patchset applies on top of the Juergen's patchset below,
which provides the basis of the PAT management.

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/12/205

All new/modified interfaces have been tested.

v3:
 - Dropped the set_memory_wt() patch. (Andy Lutomirski)
 - Refactored the !pat_enabled handling. (H. Peter Anvin,
   Andy Lutomirski)
 - Added the picture of PTE encoding. (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)

v2:
 - Changed WT to use slot 7 of the PAT MSR. (H. Peter Anvin,
   Andy Lutomirski)
 - Changed to have conservative checks to exclude all Pentium 2, 3,
   M, and 4 families. (Ingo Molnar, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh,
   Andy Lutomirski)
 - Updated documentation to cover WT interfaces and usages.
   (Andy Lutomirski, Yigal Korman)

---
Toshi Kani (5):
  1/5 x86, mm, pat: Set WT to PA7 slot of PAT MSR
  2/5 x86, mm, pat: Change reserve_memtype() to handle WT
  3/5 x86, mm, asm-gen: Add ioremap_wt() for WT
  4/5 x86, mm, pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() for WT
  5/5 x86, mm, pat: Refactor !pat_enable handling

---
 Documentation/x86/pat.txt            |   4 +-
 arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h    |   4 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/io.h            |   2 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h |   3 +
 arch/x86/mm/init.c                   |   6 +-
 arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c               |  18 ++--
 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c                |  26 +++++-
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c               |   3 -
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c                    | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 include/asm-generic/io.h             |   4 +
 include/asm-generic/iomap.h          |   4 +
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h        |   4 +
 12 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)

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2014-09-17 19:48 [PATCH v3 0/5] Support Write-Through mapping on x86 Toshi Kani
2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] x86, mm, pat: Set WT to PA7 slot of PAT MSR Toshi Kani
2014-09-23  5:46   ` Juergen Gross
2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] x86, mm, pat: Change reserve_memtype() to handle WT Toshi Kani
2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] x86, mm, asm-gen: Add ioremap_wt() for WT Toshi Kani
2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] x86, mm, pat: Add pgprot_writethrough() " Toshi Kani
2014-09-17 19:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] x86, mm, pat: Refactor !pat_enabled handling Toshi Kani
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