Re: [PATCH 2/2] simplefb: use write-combined remapping

From: Tomi Valkeinen
Date: Wed Oct 30 2013 - 06:54:17 EST


On 2013-10-30 09:49, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi Tomi
>
> Ping?

Thanks, queued this and the 1/2 patch for 3.13.

Tomi

>
> Thanks
> David
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:58 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Framebuffers shouldn't be cached and it is usually very uncommon to read
>> them. Therefore, use ioremap_wc() to get significant speed improvements on
>> systems which provide it. On all other systems it's aliased to
>> ioremap_nocache() which is also fine.
>>
>> Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/video/simplefb.c | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/video/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> index 74b016c..64db54a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> +++ b/drivers/video/simplefb.c
>> @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>
>> info->fbops = &simplefb_ops;
>> info->flags = FBINFO_DEFAULT | FBINFO_MISC_FIRMWARE;
>> - info->screen_base = ioremap(info->fix.smem_start,
>> - info->fix.smem_len);
>> + info->screen_base = ioremap_wc(info->fix.smem_start,
>> + info->fix.smem_len);
>> if (!info->screen_base) {
>> framebuffer_release(info);
>> return -ENODEV;
>> --
>> 1.8.4
>>


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