[PATCH 3.11 135/208] arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Jan 13 15:59:36 UTC 2014


3.11.10.3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

commit 4f00130b70e5eee813cc7bc298e0f3fdf79673cc upstream.

This provides better performance compared to Device GRE and also allows
unaligned accesses. Such memory is intended to be used with standard RAM
(e.g. framebuffers) and not I/O.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 0b27b65..bb969e9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ static inline int has_transparent_hugepage(void)
 #define pgprot_noncached(prot) \
 	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE))
 #define pgprot_writecombine(prot) \
-	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_GRE))
+	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
 #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
 	__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
 #define __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT
-- 
1.8.3.2





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