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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [x86-64] Add missing tlb flush after change_page_attr
Date: 24 Mar 2003 18:32:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1048527139.12339.109.camel@averell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303241641.h2OGfw35008208@deviant.impure.org.uk>

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:41, davej@codemonkey.org.uk wrote:
> diff -urpN --exclude-from=/home/davej/.exclude bk-linus/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c linux-2.5/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
> --- bk-linus/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c	2003-03-08 09:56:51.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.5/arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c	2003-03-18 21:19:53.000000000 +0000
> @@ -419,6 +419,7 @@ static __init int init_k8_gatt(agp_kern_
>  		panic("Cannot allocate GATT table"); 
>  	memset(gatt, 0, gatt_size); 
>  	change_page_attr(virt_to_page(gatt), gatt_size/PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE);
> +	global_flush_tlb();
>  	agp_gatt_table = gatt;
>  	
>  	for_all_nb(dev) { 

No it needs to be completely removed. the pci aperture is supposed to be
cachable (unlike the AGP aperture) That's still a trace of an earlier
design.

-Andi



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-24 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-24 16:41 davej
2003-03-24 17:32 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2003-03-25  0:25   ` [PATCH][x86-64] make the pci aperture cachable Thomas Schlichter
2003-03-25  1:46     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-24 20:08 ` [x86-64] Add missing tlb flush after change_page_attr Thomas Schlichter

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