Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:41:26 -0800 | From | venkatesh.pallipadi@intel ... | Subject | [patch 0/7] x86 PAT: track pfnmap mappings with remap_pfn_range vm_insert_pfn - v3 |
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v3: Patches updated based on Andrew's comments on the earlier version.
Drivers use mmap followed by pgprot_* and remap_pfn_range or vm_insert_pfn, in order to export reserved memory to userspace. Currently, such mappings are not tracked and hence not kept consistent with other mappings (/dev/mem, pci resource, ioremap) for the sme memory, that may exist in the system.
The following patchset adds x86 PAT attribute tracking and untracking for pfnmap related APIs.
First three patches in the patchset are changing the generic mm code to fit in this tracking. Last four patches are x86 specific to make things work with x86 PAT code. The patchset aso introduces pgprot_writecombine interface, which gives writecombine mapping when enabled, falling back to pgprot_noncached otherwise.
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