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author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2009-04-03 21:21:52 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-03 21:43:29 (GMT) |
commit | 5a3ae276057840f0e60664c12fc3ef80aa59d1d4 (patch) | |
tree | e51666426f6b75a4ebdc4049d0356f69e8331e6f /COPYING | |
parent | 78609a812e9afa87202631d128018361f68c44a9 (diff) | |
download | linux-5a3ae276057840f0e60664c12fc3ef80aa59d1d4.tar.xz |
x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in pci mmap
pci mmap code was doing memtype reserve for a while now. Recently we
added memtype tracking in remap_pfn_range, and pci code indirectly calls
remap_pfn_range. So, we don't need seperate tracking in pci code
anymore. Which means a patch that removes ~50 lines of code :-).
Also, recently we found out that the pci tracking is not working as we expect
it to work in some cases. Specifically, userlevel X mmap of pci, with some
recent version of X, is having a problem with vm_page_prot getting reset.
The pci tracking uses vm_page_prot to pass on the protection type from parent
to child during fork.
a) Parent does a pci mmap
b) We look at PAT and get either UC_MINUS or WC mapping for parent
c) Store that mapping type in vma vm_page_prot for future use
d) This thread does a fork
e) Fork results in mmap_ops ->open for the child process
f) We get the vm_page_prot from vma and reserve that type for the child process
But, between c) and e) above, the vma vm_page_prot is getting reset to zero.
This results in PAT reserve failing at the time of fork as in here.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123858163103240&w=2
This cleanup makes the above problem go away as we do not depend on
vm_page_prot in our PAT code anymore.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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