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Commit d92b5457 authored by Arvind Sankar's avatar Arvind Sankar Committed by Ingo Molnar
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efi/earlycon: Fix write-combine mapping on x86



On x86, until PAT is initialized, WC translates into UC-. Since we
calculate and store pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL) when earlycon is
initialized, this means we actually use UC- mappings instead of WC
mappings, which makes scrolling very slow.

Instead store a boolean flag to indicate whether we want to use
writeback or write-combine mappings, and recalculate the actual pgprot_t
we need on every mapping. Once PAT is initialized, we will start using
write-combine mappings, which speeds up the scrolling considerably.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69c1f396 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-2-ardb@kernel.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 46cf053e
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