linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: sm750fb: use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap

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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:20:44 +0200
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
Cc:	arnaud.patard@...-net.org, aaro.koskinen@....fi,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"cocci@...teme.lip6.fr" <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
	Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
	linux-fbdev <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: sm750fb: use arch_phys_wc_add() and
 ioremap_wc()

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:38:27AM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@...not-panic.com> wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
> >
> > The same area used for ioremap() is used for the MTRR area.
> > Convert the driver from using the x86 specific MTRR code to
> > the architecture agnostic arch_phys_wc_add(). arch_phys_wc_add()
> > will avoid MTRR if write-combining is available, in order to
> > take advantage of that also ensure the ioremap'd area is requested
> > as write-combining.
> >
> > There are a few motivations for this:
> >
> > a) Take advantage of PAT when available
> >
> > b) Help bury MTRR code away, MTRR is architecture specific and on
> >    x86 its replaced by PAT
> >
> > c) 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()")
> >
> > The conversion done is expressed by the following Coccinelle
> > SmPL patch, it additionally required manual intervention to
> > address all the #ifdery and removal of redundant things which
> > arch_phys_wc_add() already addresses such as verbose message
> > about when MTRR fails and doing nothing when we didn't get
> > an MTRR.
> >
> > @ mtrr_found @
> > expression index, base, size;
> > @@
> >
> > -index = mtrr_add(base, size, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1);
> > +index = arch_phys_wc_add(base, size);
> >
> > @ mtrr_rm depends on mtrr_found @
> > expression mtrr_found.index, mtrr_found.base, mtrr_found.size;
> > @@
> >
> > -mtrr_del(index, base, size);
> > +arch_phys_wc_del(index);
> >
> > @ mtrr_rm_zero_arg depends on mtrr_found @
> > expression mtrr_found.index;
> > @@
> >
> > -mtrr_del(index, 0, 0);
> > +arch_phys_wc_del(index);
> >
> > @ mtrr_rm_fb_info depends on mtrr_found @
> > struct fb_info *info;
> > expression mtrr_found.index;
> > @@
> >
> > -mtrr_del(index, info->fix.smem_start, info->fix.smem_len);
> > +arch_phys_wc_del(index);
> >
> > @ ioremap_replace_nocache depends on mtrr_found @
> > struct fb_info *info;
> > expression base, size;
> > @@
> >
> > -info->screen_base = ioremap_nocache(base, size);
> > +info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(base, size);
> >
> > @ ioremap_replace_default depends on mtrr_found @
> > struct fb_info *info;
> > expression base, size;
> > @@
> >
> > -info->screen_base = ioremap(base, size);
> > +info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(base, size);
> >
> > Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
> > Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
> > Cc: Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@...il.com>
> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
> > Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>
> > Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
> > Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
> > Cc: devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
> > Cc: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>
> 
> Hey folks, just a follow up. Can this be considered to be merged?
> 
>  Luis

I'm just starting to get to staging tree patches after the -rc1 window
was over.  Give me a week or so, they are at the bottom of my list.

thanks,

greg k-h
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