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From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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	Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:20:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e2591ad-4605-aba4-c7b8-2345940e91b4@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gNi3sesGnujShStoF8bi8kYg+MQkqhQRCT_1+wex5wbw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2020-02-29 3:47 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> PCI BAR IO memory should never be mapped as WB, however prior to this
>> the PAT bits were set WB and it was typically overridden by MTRR
>> registers set by the firmware.
>>
>> Set PCI P2PDMA memory to be WC (writecombining) as the only current
>> user (the NVMe CMB) was originally mapped WC before the P2PDMA code
>> replaced the mapping with devm_memremap_pages().
> 
> Will the change to UC regress this existing use case?

I don't think so. They've been essentially mapped UC for a long time now
(since the P2PDMA patch set was merged) and nobody has complained.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:20:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e2591ad-4605-aba4-c7b8-2345940e91b4@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gNi3sesGnujShStoF8bi8kYg+MQkqhQRCT_1+wex5wbw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2020-02-29 3:47 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> PCI BAR IO memory should never be mapped as WB, however prior to this
>> the PAT bits were set WB and it was typically overridden by MTRR
>> registers set by the firmware.
>>
>> Set PCI P2PDMA memory to be WC (writecombining) as the only current
>> user (the NVMe CMB) was originally mapped WC before the P2PDMA code
>> replaced the mapping with devm_memremap_pages().
> 
> Will the change to UC regress this existing use case?

I don't think so. They've been essentially mapped UC for a long time now
(since the P2PDMA patch set was merged) and nobody has complained.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.or>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:20:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e2591ad-4605-aba4-c7b8-2345940e91b4@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gNi3sesGnujShStoF8bi8kYg+MQkqhQRCT_1+wex5wbw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2020-02-29 3:47 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> PCI BAR IO memory should never be mapped as WB, however prior to this
>> the PAT bits were set WB and it was typically overridden by MTRR
>> registers set by the firmware.
>>
>> Set PCI P2PDMA memory to be WC (writecombining) as the only current
>> user (the NVMe CMB) was originally mapped WC before the P2PDMA code
>> replaced the mapping with devm_memremap_pages().
> 
> Will the change to UC regress this existing use case?

I don't think so. They've been essentially mapped UC for a long time now
(since the P2PDMA patch set was merged) and nobody has complained.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:20:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e2591ad-4605-aba4-c7b8-2345940e91b4@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gNi3sesGnujShStoF8bi8kYg+MQkqhQRCT_1+wex5wbw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2020-02-29 3:47 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> PCI BAR IO memory should never be mapped as WB, however prior to this
>> the PAT bits were set WB and it was typically overridden by MTRR
>> registers set by the firmware.
>>
>> Set PCI P2PDMA memory to be WC (writecombining) as the only current
>> user (the NVMe CMB) was originally mapped WC before the P2PDMA code
>> replaced the mapping with devm_memremap_pages().
> 
> Will the change to UC regress this existing use case?

I don't think so. They've been essentially mapped UC for a long time now
(since the P2PDMA patch set was merged) and nobody has complained.

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux-sh <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-s390 <linux-s390@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Eric Badger <ebadger@gigaio.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:20:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6e2591ad-4605-aba4-c7b8-2345940e91b4@deltatee.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gNi3sesGnujShStoF8bi8kYg+MQkqhQRCT_1+wex5wbw@mail.gmail.com>



On 2020-02-29 3:47 p.m., Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 10:25 AM Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> wrote:
>>
>> PCI BAR IO memory should never be mapped as WB, however prior to this
>> the PAT bits were set WB and it was typically overridden by MTRR
>> registers set by the firmware.
>>
>> Set PCI P2PDMA memory to be WC (writecombining) as the only current
>> user (the NVMe CMB) was originally mapped WC before the P2PDMA code
>> replaced the mapping with devm_memremap_pages().
> 
> Will the change to UC regress this existing use case?

I don't think so. They've been essentially mapped UC for a long time now
(since the P2PDMA patch set was merged) and nobody has complained.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-02 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 148+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-21 18:24 [PATCH v3 0/7] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for P2PDMA Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-28 21:31   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-28 21:31     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-28 21:31     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-28 21:31     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-28 21:31     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-28 21:31     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03  9:50   ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-24  9:11   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:11     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:11     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:11     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-29 20:44   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 20:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 20:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 20:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 20:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 20:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03  9:50   ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:50     ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] x86/mm: Thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:37   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03  9:52   ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2020-03-03  9:52     ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] x86/mm: Introduce _set_memory_prot() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:33   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:33     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:33     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:33     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:33     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:33     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 18:46     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:46       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:46       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:46       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:46       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] powerpc/mm: Thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Add pgprot_t to mhp_params Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-24  9:26   ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:26     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:26     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-24  9:26     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-29 22:44   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:44     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 18:55     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:55       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:55       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:55       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 18:55       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 20:26       ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 20:26         ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 20:26         ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 20:26         ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 20:26         ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 20:26         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:47   ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:47     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:47     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:47     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:47     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-29 22:47     ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 21:20     ` Logan Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-03-02 21:20       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 21:20       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 21:20       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 21:20       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for P2PDMA Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21   ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21     ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54       ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54         ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:55       ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 17:55         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 17:55         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 17:55         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 17:55         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 17:55         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:03         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:03           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:03           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:03           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:03           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:08           ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:08             ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:08             ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:08             ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:08             ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:08             ` Dan Williams

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