Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

[cascardo/linux.git] / arch / x86 / mm / ioremap.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
index 4bf037b..70e7444 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -67,8 +67,13 @@ static int __ioremap_check_ram(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
 
 /*
  * Remap an arbitrary physical address space into the kernel virtual
- * address space. Needed when the kernel wants to access high addresses
- * directly.
+ * address space. It transparently creates kernel huge I/O mapping when
+ * the physical address is aligned by a huge page size (1GB or 2MB) and
+ * the requested size is at least the huge page size.
+ *
+ * NOTE: MTRRs can override PAT memory types with a 4KB granularity.
+ * Therefore, the mapping code falls back to use a smaller page toward 4KB
+ * when a mapping range is covered by non-WB type of MTRRs.
  *
  * NOTE! We need to allow non-page-aligned mappings too: we will obviously
  * have to convert them into an offset in a page-aligned mapping, but the
@@ -326,6 +331,20 @@ void iounmap(volatile void __iomem *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iounmap);
 
+int arch_ioremap_pud_supported(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+       return cpu_has_gbpages;
+#else
+       return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
+int arch_ioremap_pmd_supported(void)
+{
+       return cpu_has_pse;
+}
+
 /*
  * Convert a physical pointer to a virtual kernel pointer for /dev/mem
  * access