linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add

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Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 21:43:45 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory()
 for P2PDMA

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 12:13:40PM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> This changes is pretty routine for most of the arches: x86_64, s390, arm64
> and powerpc simply need to thread the pgprot through to where the page tables
> are setup. x86_32 unfortunately sets up the page tables at boot so
> must use _set_memory_prot() to change their caching mode. ia64 and sh
> don't appear to have an easy way to change the page tables so, for now
> at least, we just return -EINVAL on such mappings and thus they will
> not support P2PDMA memory until the work for this is done.

ia64 and sh don't support ZONE_DEVICE mappings anyway as far as I know.

This generally looks fine to me.