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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:40:08 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com, Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fbdev <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 23/47] staging: xgifb: use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc()

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez
<mcgrof@...not-panic.com> wrote:
> 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() (de33c442e)
>
> 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: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.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: linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>

Hey folks, can this be considered to be merged.

Thanks,

  Luis
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