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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2013-11-29 10:56:14 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-09 12:24:27 -0800
commit3655a197b1ea3ce989d34868768c5f4b6205061c (patch)
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arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine
commit 4f00130b70e5eee813cc7bc298e0f3fdf79673cc upstream. This provides better performance compared to Device GRE and also allows unaligned accesses. Such memory is intended to be used with standard RAM (e.g. framebuffers) and not I/O. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e333a243bfc..e9a1a1d8189 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
#define pgprot_noncached(prot) \
__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE))
#define pgprot_writecombine(prot) \
- __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_GRE))
+ __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
#define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
__pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
#define __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT