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Commit 1adcaafe authored by Suresh Siddha's avatar Suresh Siddha Committed by H. Peter Anvin
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x86, pat: Allow ISA memory range uncacheable mapping requests



Max Vozeler reported:
>  Bug 13877 -  bogl-term broken with CONFIG_X86_PAT=y, works with =n
>
>  strace of bogl-term:
>  814   mmap2(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 4, 0)
>				 = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
>  814   write(2, "bogl: mmaping /dev/fb0: Resource temporarily unavailable\n",
>	       57) = 57

PAT code maps the ISA memory range as WB in the PAT attribute, so that
fixed range MTRR registers define the actual memory type (UC/WC/WT etc).

But the upper level is_new_memtype_allowed() API checks are failing,
as the request here is for UC and the return tracked type is WB (Tracked type is
WB as MTRR type for this legacy range potentially will be different for each
4k page).

Fix is_new_memtype_allowed() by always succeeding the ISA address range
checks, as the null PAT (WB) and def MTRR fixed range register settings
satisfy the memory type needs of the applications that map the ISA address
range.

Reported-and-Tested-by: default avatarMax Vozeler <xam@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
parent e412cd25
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