Re: [PATCH v1 09/47] vidoe: fbdev: atyfb: remove and fix MTRR MMIO "hole" work around

Andy Lutomirski
2015-03-27T19:44:23Z

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 11:15:14AM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 04:17:59PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c
>> > index 8025624..8875e56 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c
>> > @@ -2630,21 +2630,10 @@ static int aty_init(struct fb_info *info)
>> >
>> > #ifdef CONFIG_MTRR
>> > par->mtrr_aper = -1;
>> > - par->mtrr_reg = -1;
>> > if (!nomtrr) {
>> > - /* Cover the whole resource. */
>> > - par->mtrr_aper = mtrr_add(par->res_start, par->res_size,
>> > + par->mtrr_aper = mtrr_add(info->fix.smem_start,
>> > + info->fix.smem_len,
>> > MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1);
>>
>> MTRRs need power of two size, so how is this supposed to work?
>
> As per mtrr_add_page() [0] the base and size are just supposed to be in units
> of 4 KiB, although the practice is to use powers of 2 in *some* drivers this
> is not standardized and by no means recorded as a requirement. Obviously
> powers of 2 will work too and you'd end up neatly aligned as well. mtrr_add()
> will use mtrr_check() to verify the the same requirement. Furthermore,
> as per my commit log message:

Whatever the code may or may not do, the x86 architecture uses
power-of-two MTRR sizes. So I'm confused.

--Andy

>
> ---
> The last thing we do must do to remain sane is ensure we
> use the info->fix.smem_start and info->fix.smem_len for
> the framebuffer MTRR as we know that is always well adjusted.
> The *one* concern here would be if the MTRR is not in units
> of 4K __but__ we already know that in the PCI case this cannot
> happen, in the shared space setting the MTRR would be up to
> 0x7ff000 and assuming a 4K page:
>
> ; 0x7ff000 / 0x1000
> 2047
>
> Also, internally when MTRR is used mtrr_add() will use mtrr_check()
> and that should splat a warning when the MTRR base and size are
> not compatible with what is expected for MTRR usage.
> ---
>
> If any of this is too risky we can use the __arch_phys_wc_add() (or as
> Andy suggested perhaps use set_page_* stuff, although I am still evaluating
> this) but I did this change to show the effort required for a change when
> the registers / framebuffer is on the same PCI BAR but at different offsets.
>
> [0] scripts/kernel-doc -man -function mtrr_add_page arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c | nroff -man | less
>
> Luis

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Andy Lutomirski
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