From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com (mail-oi0-f43.google.com [209.85.218.43]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11B56B010C for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 11:39:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by oihd6 with SMTP id d6so10468497oih.2 for ; Wed, 27 May 2015 08:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from g2t2354.austin.hp.com (g2t2354.austin.hp.com. [15.217.128.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ge3si11225701obb.10.2015.05.27.08.39.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 27 May 2015 08:39:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Toshi Kani Subject: [PATCH v10 12/12] drivers/block/pmem: Map NVDIMM with ioremap_wt() Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 09:19:04 -0600 Message-Id: <1432739944-22633-13-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <1432739944-22633-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> References: <1432739944-22633-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hp.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, arnd@arndb.de Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, jgross@suse.com, stefan.bader@canonical.com, luto@amacapital.net, hmh@hmh.eng.br, yigal@plexistor.com, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, Elliott@hp.com, mcgrof@suse.com, hch@lst.de, Toshi Kani The pmem driver maps NVDIMM with ioremap_nocache() as we cannot write back the contents of the CPU caches in case of a crash. This patch changes to use ioremap_wt(), which provides uncached writes but cached reads, for improving read performance. Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani --- drivers/block/pmem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/pmem.c b/drivers/block/pmem.c index eabf4a8..095dfaa 100644 --- a/drivers/block/pmem.c +++ b/drivers/block/pmem.c @@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ static struct pmem_device *pmem_alloc(struct device *dev, struct resource *res) } /* - * Map the memory as non-cachable, as we can't write back the contents + * Map the memory as write-through, as we can't write back the contents * of the CPU caches in case of a crash. */ err = -ENOMEM; - pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_nocache(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); + pmem->virt_addr = ioremap_wt(pmem->phys_addr, pmem->size); if (!pmem->virt_addr) goto out_release_region; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org