From: Catalin Marinas Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:56:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~3679^2~3125 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3655a197b1ea3ce989d34868768c5f4b6205061c;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine commit 4f00130b70e5eee813cc7bc298e0f3fdf79673cc upstream. This provides better performance compared to Device GRE and also allows unaligned accesses. Such memory is intended to be used with standard RAM (e.g. framebuffers) and not I/O. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Mark Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h index e333a243bfcc..e9a1a1d81892 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, #define pgprot_noncached(prot) \ __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE)) #define pgprot_writecombine(prot) \ - __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_GRE)) + __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC)) #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \ __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC)) #define __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT