Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:33:35 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Honour passed pgprot in track_pfn_insert() and track_pfn_remap() |
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> > > track_pfn_insert() overwrites the pgprot that is passed in with a value > based on the VMA's page_prot. This is a problem for people trying to > do clever things with the new vm_insert_pfn_prot() as it will simply > overwrite the passed protection flags. If we use the current value of > the pgprot as the base, then it will behave as people are expecting. > > Also fix track_pfn_remap() in the same way.
Well that's embarrassing. Presumably it worked for me because I only overrode the cacheability bits and lookup_memtype did the right thing.
But shouldn't the PAT code change the memtype if vm_insert_pfn_prot requests it? Or are there no callers that actually need that? (HPET doesn't, because there's a plain old ioremapped mapping.)
--Andy
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