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Commit bfeb022f authored by Logan Gunthorpe's avatar Logan Gunthorpe Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params

devm_memremap_pages() is currently used by the PCI P2PDMA code to create
struct page mappings for IO memory.  At present, these mappings are
created with PAGE_KERNEL which implies setting the PAT bits to be WB.
However, on x86, an mtrr register will typically override this and force
the cache type to be UC-.  In the case firmware doesn't set this
register it is effectively WB and will typically result in a machine
check exception when it's accessed.

Other arches are not currently likely to function correctly seeing they
don't have any MTRR registers to fall back on.

To solve this, provide a way to specify the pgprot value explicitly to
arch_add_memory().

Of the arches that support MEMORY_HOTPLUG: x86_64, and arm64 need a
simple change to pass the pgprot_t down to their respective functions
which set up the page tables.  For x86_32, set the page tables
explicitly using _set_memory_prot() (seeing they are already mapped).

For ia64, s390 and sh, reject anythi...
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