Re: [PATCH v4 4/7] fbdev: fb_defio: Export fb_deferred_io_mmap

[Tomi Valkeinen]

On 28/04/16 18:18, Noralf TrÃnnes wrote:
> Export fb_deferred_io_mmap so drivers can change vma->vm_page_prot.
> When the framebuffer memory is allocated using dma_alloc_writecombine()
> instead of vmalloc(), I get cache syncing problems on ARM.
> This solves it:
> 
> static int drm_fbdev_cma_deferred_io_mmap(struct fb_info *info,
> 					  struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> {
> 	fb_deferred_io_mmap(info, vma);
> 	vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vma->vm_page_prot);
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> Could this have been done in the core?
> Drivers that don't set (struct fb_ops *)->fb_mmap, gets a call to
> fb_pgprotect() at the end of the default fb_mmap implementation
> (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c). This is an architecture specific
> function that on many platforms uses pgprot_writecombine(), but not on
> all. And looking at some of the fb_mmap implementations, some of them
> sets vm_page_prot to nocache for instance, so I think the safest bet is
> to do this in the driver and not in the fbdev core. And we can't call
> fb_pgprotect() from fb_deferred_io_mmap() either because we don't have
> access to the file pointer that powerpc needs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Noralf TrÃnnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>

 Tomi

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