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@ 2008-01-10 18:48 venkatesh.pallipadi
  2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 01/11] PAT x86: Make acpi/other drivers map memory instead of assuming identity map venkatesh.pallipadi
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From: venkatesh.pallipadi @ 2008-01-10 18:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ak, ebiederm, rdreier, torvalds, gregkh, airlied, davej, mingo,
	tglx, hpa, akpm, arjan, jesse.barnes, davem
  Cc: linux-kernel

This series is heavily derived from the PAT patchset by Eric Biederman and
Andi Kleen.
http://www.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/pat/

This patchset is a followup of "PAT support for X86_64"
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0712.1/2268.html

Things changed from the above (Dec 13 2007) version:
* PAT mappings now used are - (0,WB) (1,WT) (2,WC) (3,UC).
* Covers both i386 and x86_64.
* Resolve the /sysfs issue by exporting wc and uc interfaces.
* Piggyback PAT initialization on existing MTRR initialization as they
  have same setup rules.
* Avoid early table allocation problem for x86_64 by doing the reserved
  region pruning later in the boot. Handle both memory identity mapping and
  kernel test mapping.
* Handle fork() and /dev/mem mapping and unmapping cases.

Patchset is against Ingo's x86 branch from 2 days ago. Will need some merging
effort with Andi's CPA changes and few other changes like pgtable.h unification.

Not mapping reserved region in identity map is a sort of big change that can
potentially have side-effects on drivers (especially on x86_64), that
assume entire address range is mapped in identity map and use __va to
access reserved regions instead of ioremap/early_ioremap. We have
changed few such common cases, but there can be more in /drivers land.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>

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2008-01-10 18:48 [patch 00/11] PAT x86: PAT support for x86 venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 01/11] PAT x86: Make acpi/other drivers map memory instead of assuming identity map venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in x86_64 identity map and kernel text venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:06   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:17     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 19:28       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 20:50         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 21:16           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 22:25             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 22:35               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-14 16:43           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-14 21:21             ` Siddha, Suresh B
2008-01-14 21:28               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-15 22:17               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-15 23:11                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-15 23:21                 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2008-01-18 12:01                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-18 13:12                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 16:46                       ` Jesse Barnes
2008-01-18 18:12                         ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-18 19:02                           ` Jesse Barnes
2008-01-19  2:42                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 21:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-10 21:57     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 22:15       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-01-10 22:27         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 22:50         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-18 18:27           ` Dave Jones
2008-01-18 20:54             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 03/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in i386 identity map venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:10   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 04/11] PAT x86: Basic PAT implementation venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 05/11] PAT x86: drm driver changes for PAT venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 06/11] PAT x86: Refactoring i386 cpa venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:00   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-14 16:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 07/11] PAT x86: pat-conflict resolution using linear list venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:13   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 20:08     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 08/11] PAT x86: pci mmap conlfict patch venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 09/11] PAT x86: Add ioremap_wc support venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:08   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 19:25     ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2008-01-12  0:18       ` Roland Dreier
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 10/11] PAT x86: Handle /dev/mem mappings venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 18:48 ` [patch 11/11] PAT x86: Expose uc and wc interfaces in /sysfs vor pci_mmap_resource venkatesh.pallipadi
2008-01-10 19:43   ` Greg KH
2008-01-10 20:54     ` [patch 11/11] PAT x86: Expose uc and wc interfaces in /sysfsvor pci_mmap_resource Pallipadi, Venkatesh

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