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[PATCH] x86-64: make GART PTEs uncacheable

This patches fixes the silent data corruption problems being seen using the
GART iommu where 4kB of data where incorrect (seen mostly on Nvidia CK804
systems). This fix, to mark the memory regin the GART PTEs reside on as
uncacheable, also brings the code in line with the AGP specification.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Deguara <joachim.deguara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

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Joachim Deguara and committed by
Andi Kleen
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arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c
··· 519 519 gatt_size = (aper_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) * sizeof(u32); 520 520 gatt = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(gatt_size)); 521 521 if (!gatt) 522 - panic("Cannot allocate GATT table"); 522 + panic("Cannot allocate GATT table"); 523 + if (change_page_attr_addr((unsigned long)gatt, gatt_size >> PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE)) 524 + panic("Could not set GART PTEs to uncacheable pages"); 525 + global_flush_tlb(); 526 + 523 527 memset(gatt, 0, gatt_size); 524 528 agp_gatt_table = gatt; 525 529