From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:30:20 +0000 (+0100) Subject: x86: fix gart_iommu_init() X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~22805^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=184652eb6f68050af48a2ce3d5cf0537c208bee2;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git x86: fix gart_iommu_init() When the GART table is unmapped from the kernel direct mappings during early bootup, make sure we have no leftover cachelines in it. Note: the clflush done by set_memory_np() was not enough, because clflush does not work on unmapped pages. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c index 65f6acb..faf3229 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c @@ -749,6 +749,15 @@ void __init gart_iommu_init(void) */ set_memory_np((unsigned long)__va(iommu_bus_base), iommu_size >> PAGE_SHIFT); + /* + * Tricky. The GART table remaps the physical memory range, + * so the CPU wont notice potential aliases and if the memory + * is remapped to UC later on, we might surprise the PCI devices + * with a stray writeout of a cacheline. So play it sure and + * do an explicit, full-scale wbinvd() _after_ having marked all + * the pages as Not-Present: + */ + wbinvd(); /* * Try to workaround a bug (thanks to BenH)