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Date:	Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:57:59 +0100
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@....fi>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
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	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 09/47] vidoe: fbdev: atyfb: remove and fix MTRR MMIO
 "hole" work around

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.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.

There should be no confusion, I simply did not know that *was* the
requirement for x86, if that is the case we should add a check for that
and perhaps generalize a helper that does the power of two helper changes,
the cleanest I found was the vesafb driver solution.

Thoughts?

 Luis
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