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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2008-03-25 17:39:12 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-03-26 22:23:41 +0100
commitd546b67a940eb42a99f56b86c5cd8d47c8348c2a (patch)
tree5382b2d1800756aedad0a25643081de2eec6a4bf /include
parent76c324182bbd29dfe4298ca65efb15be18055df1 (diff)
downloadlinux-d546b67a940eb42a99f56b86c5cd8d47c8348c2a.tar.gz
x86: fix performance drop for glx
fix the 3D performance drop reported at:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10328

fb drivers are using ioremap()/ioremap_nocache(), followed by mtrr_add with
WC attribute. Recent changes in page attribute code made both
ioremap()/ioremap_nocache() mappings as UC (instead of previous UC-). This
breaks the graphics performance, as the effective memory type is UC instead
of expected WC.

The correct way to fix this is to add ioremap_wc() (which uses UC- in the
absence of PAT kernel support and WC with PAT) and change all the
fb drivers to use this new ioremap_wc() API.

We can take this correct and longer route for post 2.6.25. For now,
revert back to the UC- behavior for ioremap/ioremap_nocache.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
index 174b87738714..9cf472aeb9ce 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ extern pteval_t __PAGE_KERNEL, __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_RX		(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC & ~_PAGE_RW)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE	(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
+#define __PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL		(__PAGE_KERNEL_RX | _PAGE_USER)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE	(__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
 #define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE		(__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PSE)
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ extern pteval_t __PAGE_KERNEL, __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC		MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_RX			MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_RX)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE		MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE)
+#define PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS		MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE	MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE		MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE)
 #define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC		MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC)