The x86 vvar vma conntains pages with differing cacheability flags. x86 currently implements this by manually inserting all the ptes using (io_)remap_pfn_range when the vma is set up.
x86 wants to move to using .fault with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE to set up the mappings as needed. The correct API to use to insert a pfn in .fault is vm_insert_pfn, but vm_insert_pfn can't override the vma's cache mode, and the HPET page in particular needs to be uncached despite the fact that the rest of the VMA is cached. Add vm_insert_pfn_prot to support varying cacheability within the same non-COW VMA in a more sane manner. x86 could alternatively use multiple VMAs, but that's messy, would break CRIU, and would create unnecessary VMAs that would waste memory. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> --- include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++ mm/memory.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 00bad7793788..87ef1d7730ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2080,6 +2080,8 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, struct page *); int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn); +int vm_insert_pfn_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, + unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t pgprot); int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn); int vm_iomap_memory(struct vm_area_struct *vma, phys_addr_t start, unsigned long len); diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index c387430f06c3..a29f0b90fc56 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1564,8 +1564,29 @@ out: int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn) { + return vm_insert_pfn_prot(vma, addr, pfn, vma->vm_page_prot); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_pfn); + +/** + * vm_insert_pfn_prot - insert single pfn into user vma with specified pgprot + * @vma: user vma to map to + * @addr: target user address of this page + * @pfn: source kernel pfn + * @pgprot: pgprot flags for the inserted page + * + * This is exactly like vm_insert_pfn, except that it allows drivers to + * to override pgprot on a per-page basis. + * + * This only makes sense for IO mappings, and it makes no sense for + * cow mappings. In general, using multiple vmas is preferable; + * vm_insert_pfn_prot should only be used if using multiple VMAs is + * impractical. + */ +int vm_insert_pfn_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, + unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t pgprot) +{ int ret; - pgprot_t pgprot = vma->vm_page_prot; /* * Technically, architectures with pte_special can avoid all these * restrictions (same for remap_pfn_range). However we would like @@ -1587,7 +1608,7 @@ int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, return ret; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_pfn); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_pfn_prot); int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn) -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/