x86: fix performance drop for glx

fix the 3D performance drop reported at:

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10328

fb drivers are using ioremap()/ioremap_nocache(), followed by mtrr_add with
WC attribute. Recent changes in page attribute code made both
ioremap()/ioremap_nocache() mappings as UC (instead of previous UC-). This
breaks the graphics performance, as the effective memory type is UC instead
of expected WC.

The correct way to fix this is to add ioremap_wc() (which uses UC- in the
absence of PAT kernel support and WC with PAT) and change all the
fb drivers to use this new ioremap_wc() API.

We can take this correct and longer route for post 2.6.25. For now,
revert back to the UC- behavior for ioremap/ioremap_nocache.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Suresh Siddha 2008-03-25 17:39:12 -07:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 76c324182b
commit d546b67a94
3 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -137,7 +137,11 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap(resource_size_t phys_addr, unsigned long size,
switch (mode) {
case IOR_MODE_UNCACHED:
default:
prot = PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE;
/*
* FIXME: we will use UC MINUS for now, as video fb drivers
* depend on it. Upcoming ioremap_wc() will fix this behavior.
*/
prot = PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS;
break;
case IOR_MODE_CACHED:
prot = PAGE_KERNEL;

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@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ static inline int change_page_attr_clear(unsigned long addr, int numpages,
int set_memory_uc(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
{
return change_page_attr_set(addr, numpages,
__pgprot(_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT));
__pgprot(_PAGE_PCD));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_memory_uc);

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@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ extern pteval_t __PAGE_KERNEL, __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_RX (__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC & ~_PAGE_RW)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PCD)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL (__PAGE_KERNEL_RX | _PAGE_USER)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL_NOCACHE (__PAGE_KERNEL_VSYSCALL | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE (__PAGE_KERNEL | _PAGE_PSE)
@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ extern pteval_t __PAGE_KERNEL, __PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC;
#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_RX MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_RX)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_UC_MINUS)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC_NOCACHE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE)
#define PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC MAKE_GLOBAL(__PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC)