Commit d92b5457 authored by Arvind Sankar's avatar Arvind Sankar Committed by Ingo Molnar

efi/earlycon: Fix write-combine mapping on x86

On x86, until PAT is initialized, WC translates into UC-. Since we
calculate and store pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL) when earlycon is
initialized, this means we actually use UC- mappings instead of WC
mappings, which makes scrolling very slow.

Instead store a boolean flag to indicate whether we want to use
writeback or write-combine mappings, and recalculate the actual pgprot_t
we need on every mapping. Once PAT is initialized, we will start using
write-combine mappings, which speeds up the scrolling considerably.
Signed-off-by: default avatarArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69c1f396 ("efi/x86: Convert x86 EFI earlyprintk into generic earlycon implementation")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191224132909.102540-2-ardb@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 46cf053e
......@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ static const struct console *earlycon_console __initdata;
static const struct font_desc *font;
static u32 efi_x, efi_y;
static u64 fb_base;
static pgprot_t fb_prot;
static bool fb_wb;
static void *efi_fb;
/*
......@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@ static int __init efi_earlycon_remap_fb(void)
if (!earlycon_console || !(earlycon_console->flags & CON_ENABLED))
return 0;
if (pgprot_val(fb_prot) == pgprot_val(PAGE_KERNEL))
efi_fb = memremap(fb_base, screen_info.lfb_size, MEMREMAP_WB);
else
efi_fb = memremap(fb_base, screen_info.lfb_size, MEMREMAP_WC);
efi_fb = memremap(fb_base, screen_info.lfb_size,
fb_wb ? MEMREMAP_WB : MEMREMAP_WC);
return efi_fb ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
}
......@@ -53,9 +51,12 @@ late_initcall(efi_earlycon_unmap_fb);
static __ref void *efi_earlycon_map(unsigned long start, unsigned long len)
{
pgprot_t fb_prot;
if (efi_fb)
return efi_fb + start;
fb_prot = fb_wb ? PAGE_KERNEL : pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL);
return early_memremap_prot(fb_base + start, len, pgprot_val(fb_prot));
}
......@@ -215,10 +216,7 @@ static int __init efi_earlycon_setup(struct earlycon_device *device,
if (screen_info.capabilities & VIDEO_CAPABILITY_64BIT_BASE)
fb_base |= (u64)screen_info.ext_lfb_base << 32;
if (opt && !strcmp(opt, "ram"))
fb_prot = PAGE_KERNEL;
else
fb_prot = pgprot_writecombine(PAGE_KERNEL);
fb_wb = opt && !strcmp(opt, "ram");
si = &screen_info;
xres = si->lfb_width;
......
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