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author | Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> | 2015-06-15 10:28:16 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-06-18 11:23:41 +0200 |
commit | 1bf1735b478008c30acaff18ec6f4a3ff211c28a (patch) | |
tree | 1ec0bb08cdfbda3ef6258b169182724105e80c5e /drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig | |
parent | 957561ec0fa8a701f60ca6a0f40cc46f5c554920 (diff) | |
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x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
We are burrying direct access to MTRR code support on
x86 in order to take advantage of PAT. In the future, we
also want to make the default behavior of ioremap_nocache()
to use strong UC, at which point the use of mtrr_add() on
those systems would make write-combining void.
In order to help both enable us to later make strong
UC default and in order to phase out direct MTRR access
code, port the driver over to the arch_phys_wc_add() API
and annotate that the device driver requires systems to
boot with PAT disabled, with the 'nopat' kernel parameter.
This is a workable compromise given that the hardware is
really rare these days, and perhaps only some lost souls
stuck with obsolete hardware are expected to be using this
feature of the device driver.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Cc: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tomi.valkeinen@ti.com
Cc: toshi.kani@hp.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434053994-2196-2-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig index dd6ee57e3a4c..6e5867c57305 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/media/pci/ivtv/Kconfig @@ -57,5 +57,8 @@ config VIDEO_FB_IVTV This is used in the Hauppauge PVR-350 card. There is a driver homepage at <http://www.ivtvdriver.org>. + In order to use this module, you will need to boot with PAT disabled + on x86 systems, using the nopat kernel parameter. + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called ivtvfb. |