linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] mtrr, mm, x86: Enhance MTRR checks for huge I/O mapping

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Message-ID: <1428074540.31093.110.camel@misato.fc.hp.com>
Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 2015 09:22:20 -0600
From:	Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, hpa@...or.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@...el.com, Elliott@...com, pebolle@...cali.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/7] mtrr, mm, x86: Enhance MTRR checks for huge I/O
 mapping

On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 08:33 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:08:34 -0600 Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@...com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patchset enhances MTRR checks for the kernel huge I/O mapping,
> > > which was enabled by the patchset below:
> > >   https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/3/589
> > > 
> > > The following functional changes are made in patch 7/7.
> > >  - Allow pud_set_huge() and pmd_set_huge() to create a huge page
> > >    mapping to a range covered by a single MTRR entry of any memory
> > >    type.
> > >  - Log a pr_warn() message when a specified PMD map range spans more
> > >    than a single MTRR entry.  Drivers should make a mapping request
> > >    aligned to a single MTRR entry when the range is covered by MTRRs.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I grabbed these after barely looking at them, to get them a bit of
> > runtime testing.
> > 
> > I'll await guidance from the x86 maintainers regarding next steps?
> 
> Could you please send the current version of them over to us if your 
> testing didn't find any problems?
> 
> I'd like to take a final look and have them cook in the x86 tree as 
> well for a while and want to preserve your testing effort.

This patchset is on top of the following patches in the -mm tree.
(Patches apply from the bottom to the top.)

2. Build error fixes and cleanups
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-kva-mappings-on-x86-fix.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-vunmap-to-tear-down-huge-kva-mappings-fix.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-ioremap-to-set-up-huge-i-o-mappings-fix.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-add-huge-i-o-map-capability-interfaces-fix.patch

1. Kernel huge I/O mapping support
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-kva-mappings-on-x86.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/x86-mm-support-huge-i-o-mapping-capability-i-f.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-vunmap-to-tear-down-huge-kva-mappings.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-ioremap-to-set-up-huge-i-o-mappings.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/lib-add-huge-i-o-map-capability-interfaces.patch
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-change-__get_vm_area_node-to-use-fls_long.patch

Thanks,
-Toshi

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