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Logan Gunthorpe 96c6b59813 mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions
Patch series "Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for
P2PDMA", v4.

Currently, the page tables created using memremap_pages() are always
created with the PAGE_KERNEL cacheing mode.  However, the P2PDMA code is
creating pages for PCI BAR memory which should never be accessed through
the cache and instead use either WC or UC.  This still works in most
cases, on x86, because the MTRR registers typically override the caching
settings in the page tables for all of the IO memory to be UC-.
However, this tends not to work so well on other arches or some rare x86
machines that have firmware which does not setup the MTRR registers in
this way.

Instead of this, this series proposes a change to arch_add_memory() to
take the pgprot required by the mapping which allows us to explicitly
set pagetable entries for P2PDMA memory to UC.

This changes is pretty routine for most of the arches: x86_64, arm64 and
powerpc simply need to thread the pgprot through to where the page
tables are setup.  x86_32 unfortunately sets up the page tables at boot
so must use _set_memory_prot() to change their caching mode.  ia64, s390
and sh don't appear to have an easy way to change the page tables so,
for now at least, we just return -EINVAL on such mappings and thus they
will not support P2PDMA memory until the work for this is done.  This
should be fine as they don't yet support ZONE_DEVICE.

This patch (of 7):

This variable is not used anywhere and should therefore be removed from
the structure.

Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200306170846.9333-2-logang@deltatee.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
arch mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
block SCSI misc on 20200402 2020-04-02 17:03:53 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
Documentation mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
drivers mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
fs ocfs2: no need try to truncate file beyond i_size 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
include mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
init arm64 fixes: 2020-04-09 11:04:16 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: make compat_ksys_shmctl() static 2020-04-07 10:43:45 -07:00
kernel Modules updates for v5.7 2020-04-09 12:52:34 -07:00
lib libnvdimm for 5.7 2020-04-08 21:03:40 -07:00
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mm mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS libnvdimm for 5.7 2020-04-08 21:03:40 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.