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    x86: PAT: store vm_pgoff for all linear_over_vma_region mappings - v3 · 3c8bb73a
    venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
    
    
    Impact: Code transformation, new functions added should have no effect.
    
    Drivers use mmap followed by pgprot_* and remap_pfn_range or vm_insert_pfn,
    in order to export reserved memory to userspace. Currently, such mappings are
    not tracked and hence not kept consistent with other mappings (/dev/mem,
    pci resource, ioremap) for the sme memory, that may exist in the system.
    
    The following patchset adds x86 PAT attribute tracking and untracking for
    pfnmap related APIs.
    
    First three patches in the patchset are changing the generic mm code to fit
    in this tracking. Last four patches are x86 specific to make things work
    with x86 PAT code. The patchset aso introduces pgprot_writecombine interface,
    which gives writecombine mapping when enabled, falling back to
    pgprot_noncached otherwise.
    
    This patch:
    
    While working on x86 PAT, we faced some hurdles with trackking
    remap_pfn_range() regions, as we do not have any information to say
    whether that PFNMAP mapping is linear for the entire vma range or
    it is smaller granularity regions within the vma.
    
    A simple solution to this is to use vm_pgoff as an indicator for
    linear mapping over the vma region. Currently, remap_pfn_range
    only sets vm_pgoff for COW mappings. Below patch changes the
    logic and sets the vm_pgoff irrespective of COW. This will still not
    be enough for the case where pfn is zero (vma region mapped to
    physical address zero). But, for all the other cases, we can look at
    pfnmap VMAs and say whether the mappng is for the entire vma region
    or not.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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