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Message-Id: <1206425814-20831-1-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:16:53 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@...il.com>,
	Hans J Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>, stable <stable@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code

From: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@...il.com>

Mapping of physical memory in UIO needs pgprot_noncached() to ensure
that IO memory is not cached. Without pgprot_noncached(), it (accidentally)
works on x86 and arm, but fails on PPC.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>
Cc: stable <stable@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
---
 drivers/uio/uio.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index e8a01f2..1175908 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -470,6 +470,8 @@ static int uio_mmap_physical(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 
 	vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_RESERVED;
 
+	vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
+
 	return remap_pfn_range(vma,
 			       vma->vm_start,
 			       idev->info->mem[mi].addr >> PAGE_SHIFT,
-- 
1.5.4.3

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