Le 21/04/2015 22:16, Luis R. Rodriguez a écrit :
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcg...@suse.com>
>
> The driver doesn't use mtrr_add() or arch_phys_wc_add() but
> since we know the framebuffer is isolated already on an
> ioremap() we can take advantage of write combining for
> performance where possible.
>
> In this case there are a few motivations for this:
>
> a) Take advantage of PAT when available
>
> b) Help with the goal of eventually using _PAGE_CACHE_UC over
> _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS on x86 on ioremap_nocache() (see commit
> de33c442e titled "x86 PAT: fix performance drop for glx,
> use UC minus for ioremap(), ioremap_nocache() and
> pci_mmap_page_range()")
>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com>
Seems okay:
Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.fe...@atmel.com>
Thanks for having taking care of atmel_lcdfb driver.
Bye,
> Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsid...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vet...@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net>
> Cc: Dave Airlie <airl...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Antonino Daplas <adap...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagn...@jcrosoft.com>
> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkei...@ti.com>
> Cc: linux-fb...@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@suse.com>
> ---
> drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> index 94a8d04..abadc49 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/atmel_lcdfb.c
> @@ -1266,7 +1266,8 @@ static int __init atmel_lcdfb_probe(struct
> platform_device *pdev)
> goto stop_clk;
> }
>
> - info->screen_base = ioremap(info->fix.smem_start,
> info->fix.smem_len);
> + info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(info->fix.smem_start,
> + info->fix.smem_len);
> if (!info->screen_base) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto release_intmem;
>
--
Nicolas Ferre
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