[PATCH V2] powerpc/infiniband: Use cache inhibitted and guarded mapping on powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Apr 22 08:47:56 AEST 2016
On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 03:58 -0400, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> The driver was requesting for a writethrough mapping. But with thoses
> flags we will end up with a SAO mapping because we now have memory
> conherence always enabled. ie, the existing mapping will end up with
> a WIMG value 0b1110 which is Strong Access Order.
>
> Update this to use cache inhibitted guarded mapping
Why guarded ? If it's performance sensitive (and the driver has
appropriate barriers where needed), you will get write combining
without guarded, you won't with it.
Cheers,
Ben.
> Cc: Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath at intel.com>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>
> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock at gmail.com>
> Cc: linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Changes from v1:
> * resend because V1 never reached mailing list.
>
> NOTE: This is only compile tested and I am also not sure why ppc64
> needs special handling.
> We need this patch because the series at http://mid.gmane.org/1460182
> 444-2468-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> will drop _PAGE_WRITETHRU
>
> drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c | 5 +----
> drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_pcie.c | 6 ------
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c
> index e449e394963f..a3d593f546ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c
> @@ -822,10 +822,7 @@ static int mmap_piobufs(struct vm_area_struct
> *vma,
> phys = dd->physaddr + piobufs;
>
> #if defined(__powerpc__)
> - /* There isn't a generic way to specify writethrough
> mappings */
> - pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) |= _PAGE_NO_CACHE;
> - pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) |= _PAGE_WRITETHRU;
> - pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) &= ~_PAGE_GUARDED;
> + vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
> #endif
>
> /*
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_pcie.c
> b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_pcie.c
> index 4758a3801ae8..6abe1c621aa4 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_pcie.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_pcie.c
> @@ -144,13 +144,7 @@ int qib_pcie_ddinit(struct qib_devdata *dd,
> struct pci_dev *pdev,
> addr = pci_resource_start(pdev, 0);
> len = pci_resource_len(pdev, 0);
>
> -#if defined(__powerpc__)
> - /* There isn't a generic way to specify writethrough
> mappings */
> - dd->kregbase = __ioremap(addr, len, _PAGE_NO_CACHE |
> _PAGE_WRITETHRU);
> -#else
> dd->kregbase = ioremap_nocache(addr, len);
> -#endif
> -
> if (!dd->kregbase)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
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