linux/arch/x86
Juergen Gross 281d4078be x86: Make page cache mode a real type
At the moment there are a lot of places that handle setting or getting
the page cache mode by treating the pgprot bits equal to the cache mode.
This is only true because there are a lot of assumptions about the setup
of the PAT MSR. Otherwise the cache type needs to get translated into
pgprot bits and vice versa.

This patch tries to prepare for that by introducing a separate type
for the cache mode and adding functions to translate between those and
pgprot values.

To avoid too much performance penalty the translation between cache mode
and pgprot values is done via tables which contain the relevant
information.  Write-back cache mode is hard-wired to be 0, all other
modes are configurable via those tables. For large pages there are
translation functions as the PAT bit is located at different positions
in the ptes of 4k and large pages.

Based-on-patch-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: jbeulich@suse.com
Cc: toshi.kani@hp.com
Cc: plagnioj@jcrosoft.com
Cc: tomi.valkeinen@ti.com
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415019724-4317-2-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-11-16 11:04:24 +01:00
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boot Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-23 14:45:09 -07:00
configs x86: Add "make tinyconfig" to configure the tiniest possible kernel 2014-08-08 16:30:24 -07:00
crypto Revert "crypto: aesni - disable "by8" AVX CTR optimization" 2014-10-02 14:40:28 +08:00
ia32 Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
include x86: Make page cache mode a real type 2014-11-16 11:04:24 +01:00
kernel Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
kvm KVM: x86: Wrong assertion on paging_tmpl.h 2014-10-24 13:30:37 +02:00
lguest asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/* 2014-05-05 16:07:44 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 18:14:50 +02:00
math-emu asmlinkage, x86: Add explicit __visible to arch/x86/* 2014-05-05 16:07:44 -07:00
mm x86: Make page cache mode a real type 2014-11-16 11:04:24 +01:00
net x86: bpf_jit: fix two bugs in eBPF JIT compiler 2014-10-14 13:13:14 -04:00
oprofile percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t 2014-08-28 08:58:57 -04:00
pci xen: features and fixes for 3.18-rc0 2014-10-11 20:29:01 -04:00
platform The "weak" attribute is commonly used for the default version of a 2014-10-23 15:04:27 -07:00
power nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h> 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
purgatory arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile: try to use automatic variable in kexec purgatory makefile 2014-10-14 02:18:21 +02:00
realmode x86/build: Supress realmode.bin is up to date message 2014-04-16 15:17:24 +02:00
syscalls bpf: enable bpf syscall on x64 and i386 2014-09-26 15:05:14 -04:00
tools x86/relocs: Make per_cpu_load_addr static 2014-09-24 15:17:47 +02:00
um Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-10-19 16:25:56 -07:00
vdso x86/vdso: Fix vdso2c's special_pages[] error checking 2014-09-24 09:55:38 +02:00
video
xen x86/xen: panic on bad Xen-provided memory map 2014-10-23 16:24:02 +01:00
.gitignore x86/build: Add arch/x86/purgatory/ make generated files to gitignore 2014-10-09 09:29:46 +02:00
Kbuild kexec: create a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE for new syscall 2014-08-29 16:28:16 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-14 02:23:55 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-nuke-platforms-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-04-02 13:15:58 -07:00
Kconfig.debug x86/efi: Dump the EFI page table 2014-03-04 16:17:17 +00:00
Makefile Merge branch 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-13 18:17:33 +02:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um