[tip:x86/mm] x86/mm: Teach is_new_memtype_allowed() about Write-Through type

tip-bot for Toshi Kani
2015-06-07T17:41:56Z

Commit-ID: ecb2febaaa3945e1578359adc30ca818e78540fb
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ecb2febaaa3945e1578359adc30ca818e78540fb
Author: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:55:14 +0200
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:28:55 +0200

x86/mm: Teach is_new_memtype_allowed() about Write-Through type

__ioremap_caller() calls reserve_memtype() and the passed down
@new_pcm contains the actual page cache type it reserved in the
success case.

is_new_memtype_allowed() verifies if converting to the new page
cache type is allowed when @pcm (the requested type) is
different from @new_pcm.

When WT is requested, the caller expects that writes are ordered
and uncached. Therefore, enhance is_new_memtype_allowed() to
disallow the following cases:

- If the request is WT, mapping type cannot be WB
- If the request is WT, mapping type cannot be WC

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-7-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index fe57e7a..2562e30 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -398,11 +398,17 @@ static inline int is_new_memtype_allowed(u64 paddr, unsigned long size,
* requested memtype:
* - request is uncached, return cannot be write-back
* - request is write-combine, return cannot be write-back
+ * - request is write-through, return cannot be write-back
+ * - request is write-through, return cannot be write-combine
*/
if ((pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS &&
new_pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB) ||
(pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WC &&
- new_pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB)) {
+ new_pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB) ||
+ (pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT &&
+ new_pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB) ||
+ (pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT &&
+ new_pcm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WC)) {
return 0;
}