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From: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
To: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: ak@muc.de, ebiederm@xmission.com, rdreier@cisco.com,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, airlied@skynet.ie,
	davej@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, arjan@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:54:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712131654.08669.jesse.barnes@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071213235712.813201000@intel.com>

On Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:55 pm venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com wrote:
> Forward port of coherent-mmap.patch and sysfs-bin-ioctl.patch to x86 tree.
>
> TBD: Do we need the ioctl interface to sysfs or get the type attribute
> through a different sysfs file. And then actually specify the attribute
> while doing pci_mmap_page_range ;-)
>
> And when this interface is in place, X server has to use this interface for
> WC mapping.

I remember talking with people about using madvise and/or mmap flags to set 
the attributes correctly, but I don't remember whether it was a good idea or 
not...

The advantage of a specific post-mmap call is that it would make setting the 
attribute types a little easier, so either ioctl or madvise seems preferable 
to mmapping over and over with different flags until you get the mapping.

Jesse

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-14  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-13 23:55 [RFC PATCH 00/12] PAT 64b: PAT support for X86_64 venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] PAT 64b: Add cpu_shutdown() support venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] PAT 64b: Basic PAT implementation venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14  0:42   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 18:31     ` Venki Pallipadi
2007-12-18  4:50       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14  3:48   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14  4:23     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:10       ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 23:34         ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-15  7:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-14 10:25     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14 19:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18  4:42       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:06     ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] PAT 64b: drm driver changes for PAT venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] PAT 64b: reserve_mattr and free_mattr " venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] PAT 64b: pci mmap conlfict patch venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] PAT 64b: Add ioremap_wc support venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14  4:17   ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-14  4:28     ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14  4:32       ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-14  4:48         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 21:40           ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 23:19             ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18  8:29             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] PAT 64b: dev mem chanegs for pat venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] PAT 64b: coherent mmap and sysfs bin ioctl venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14  0:19   ` Greg KH
2007-12-14  0:35     ` David Miller
2007-12-14  6:34       ` Greg KH
2007-12-16 21:57         ` Paul Mackerras
2007-12-17 12:41           ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18  4:30             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-18  4:51               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-18  9:35               ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-18 13:48                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14  0:43     ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-14  0:54   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2007-12-14  3:59   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14  6:02     ` Greg KH
2007-12-14  6:04       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-12-14 10:19         ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] PAT 64b: map only usable memory in identity mapping venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] PAT 64b: Make acpi use early map instead of assuming identity map venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] PAT 64b: devmem do not read pages not mapped in " venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-13 23:55 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] PAT 64b: skip attr tracking for RAM venkatesh.pallipadi
2007-12-14  0:28 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] PAT 64b: PAT support for X86_64 Dave Airlie
2007-12-14 22:00   ` Siddha, Suresh B
2007-12-14 22:27     ` Dave Airlie
2007-12-14 22:32       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-14 22:37         ` Dave Airlie

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