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authorvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>2009-01-09 16:13:10 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-13 19:13:00 +0100
commitafc7d20c8429f32f19d47367fdc36eeed2334ec3 (patch)
treee817ea903498dcce184a758efb44d6e29223cfa3 /arch/x86/pci
parenta36706131182f5507d1e2cfbf391b0fa8d72203c (diff)
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x86 PAT: consolidate old memtype new memtype check into a function
Impact: cleanup Move the new memtype old memtype allowed check to header so that is can be shared by other users. Subsequent patch uses this in pat.c in remap_pfn_range() code path. No functionality change in this patch. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/pci')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/pci/i386.c12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
index f884740da31..5ead808dd70 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
@@ -314,17 +314,7 @@ int pci_mmap_page_range(struct pci_dev *dev, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return retval;
if (flags != new_flags) {
- /*
- * Do not fallback to certain memory types with certain
- * requested type:
- * - request is uncached, return cannot be write-back
- * - request is uncached, return cannot be write-combine
- * - request is write-combine, return cannot be write-back
- */
- if ((flags == _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS &&
- (new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB)) ||
- (flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WC &&
- new_flags == _PAGE_CACHE_WB)) {
+ if (!is_new_memtype_allowed(flags, new_flags)) {
free_memtype(addr, addr+len);
return -EINVAL;
}