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

Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The dominant change in this cycle was the continued work to isolate
  kernel drivers from MTRR legacies: this tree gets rid of all kernel
  internal driver interfaces to MTRRs (mostly by rewriting it to proper
  PAT interfaces), the only access left is the /proc/mtrr ABI.

  This work was done by Luis R Rodriguez.

  There's also some related PCI interface additions for which I've
  Cc:-ed Bjorn"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()
  s390/io: Add pci_iomap_wc() and pci_iomap_wc_range()
  drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style
  drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
  PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants
  drivers/video/fbdev/gxt4500: Use pci_ioremap_wc_bar() to map framebuffer
  drivers/video/fbdev/kyrofb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  PCI: Add pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
  x86/mm: Make kernel/check.c explicitly non-modular
  x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular
  x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables
  arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_uc() to all architectures
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc()
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Replace MTRR UC hole with strong UC
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Clarify ioremap() base and length used
  drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Carve out framebuffer length fudging into a helper
  x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default
  ...

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
index 860bc3adc223..dc3e703913ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,22 @@ Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> - April 9, 2015
 ===============================================================================
 Phasing out MTRR use
 
-MTRR use is replaced on modern x86 hardware with PAT. Over time the only type
-of effective MTRR that is expected to be supported will be for write-combining.
-As MTRR use is phased out device drivers should use arch_phys_wc_add() to make
-MTRR effective on non-PAT systems while a no-op on PAT enabled systems.
+MTRR use is replaced on modern x86 hardware with PAT. Direct MTRR use by
+drivers on Linux is now completely phased out, device drivers should use
+arch_phys_wc_add() in combination with ioremap_wc() to make MTRR effective on
+non-PAT systems while a no-op but equally effective on PAT enabled systems.
+
+Even if Linux does not use MTRRs directly, some x86 platform firmware may still
+set up MTRRs early before booting the OS. They do this as some platform
+firmware may still have implemented access to MTRRs which would be controlled
+and handled by the platform firmware directly. An example of platform use of
+MTRRs is through the use of SMI handlers, one case could be for fan control,
+the platform code would need uncachable access to some of its fan control
+registers. Such platform access does not need any Operating System MTRR code in
+place other than mtrr_type_lookup() to ensure any OS specific mapping requests
+are aligned with platform MTRR setup. If MTRRs are only set up by the platform
+firmware code though and the OS does not make any specific MTRR mapping
+requests mtrr_type_lookup() should always return MTRR_TYPE_INVALID.
 
 For details refer to Documentation/x86/pat.txt.