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Subject: Re: [RFC - V2] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa () zytor ! com>
Date: 2010-08-26 18:08:02
Message-ID: 4C76AD82.2030105 () zytor ! com
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On 08/26/2010 10:17 AM, Jack Steiner wrote:
> Map ACPI tables as WB on x86_64. No substantive changes to IA64.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
>
> ---
> V2 - Change the patch to unconditionally map ACPI tables as WB on x86_64.
> I'm still some paranoid about this because of the potential imapct on
> some platforms with weird BIOSs. However, note that on EFI-enabled
> systems (like UV), the ACPI tables are already mapped as WB memory.
> This is done in the EFI function efi_enter_virtual_mode().
> The ACPI code in acpi_os_map_memory() is not currently aware of the
> EFI mapping & currently maps the memory as UC. This seems like a bug.
>
I really think that it's all a consequence of the fact that ioremap()
became implicitly UC when we added PAT support (being the more
conservative choice.)
Len, want to take this one or should I?
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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