linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/5] x86, mm, pat: Change reserve

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Message-Id: <1410983321-15162-3-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:48:38 -0600
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
To:	hpa@...or.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, arnd@...db.de
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jgross@...e.com,
	stefan.bader@...onical.com, luto@...capital.net, hmh@....eng.br,
	yigal@...xistor.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/5] x86, mm, pat: Change reserve_memtype() to handle WT

This patch changes reserve_memtype() to handle the WT cache mode.
When PAT is not enabled, it continues to set UC- to *new_type for
any non-WB request.

When a target range is RAM, reserve_ram_pages_type() fails for WT
for now.  This function may not reserve a RAM range for WT since
reserve_ram_pages_type() uses the page flags limited to three memory
types, WB, WC and UC.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h |    4 ++++
 arch/x86/mm/pat.c                 |   16 +++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 157644b..c912680 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ static inline void set_page_memtype(struct page *pg,
 	case _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB:
 		memtype_flags = _PGMT_WB;
 		break;
+	case _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT:
+	case _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WP:
+		pr_err("set_page_memtype: unsupported cachemode %d\n", memtype);
+		BUG();
 	default:
 		memtype_flags = _PGMT_DEFAULT;
 		break;
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index db687c3..a214f5a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ static int pat_pagerange_is_ram(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end)
 
 /*
  * For RAM pages, we use page flags to mark the pages with appropriate type.
+ * The page flags are currently limited to three types, WB, WC and UC. Hence,
+ * any request to WT or WP will fail with -EINVAL.
  * Here we do two pass:
  * - Find the memtype of all the pages in the range, look for any conflicts
  * - In case of no conflicts, set the new memtype for pages in the range
@@ -300,6 +302,13 @@ static int reserve_ram_pages_type(u64 start, u64 end,
 	struct page *page;
 	u64 pfn;
 
+	if ((req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT) ||
+	    (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WP)) {
+		if (new_type)
+			*new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS;
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC) {
 		/* We do not support strong UC */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
@@ -349,6 +358,7 @@ static int free_ram_pages_type(u64 start, u64 end)
  * - _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WC
  * - _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS
  * - _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC
+ * - _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WT
  *
  * If new_type is NULL, function will return an error if it cannot reserve the
  * region with req_type. If new_type is non-NULL, function will return
@@ -368,10 +378,10 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, enum page_cache_mode req_type,
 	if (!pat_enabled) {
 		/* This is identical to page table setting without PAT */
 		if (new_type) {
-			if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WC)
-				*new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS;
+			if (req_type == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB)
+				*new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_WB;
 			else
-				*new_type = req_type;
+				*new_type = _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS;
 		}
 		return 0;
 	}
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