arm64: Use Normal NonCacheable memory for writecombine

commit 4f00130b70e5eee813cc7bc298e0f3fdf79673cc upstream.

This provides better performance compared to Device GRE and also allows
unaligned accesses. Such memory is intended to be used with standard RAM
(e.g. framebuffers) and not I/O.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e333a243bfccf4f6e1547ea2543e5a3fa3abd32b..e9a1a1d81892b41211daf05db63129c2d896c7d5 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 #define pgprot_noncached(prot) \
        __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_nGnRnE))
 #define pgprot_writecombine(prot) \
-       __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_DEVICE_GRE))
+       __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
 #define pgprot_dmacoherent(prot) \
        __pgprot_modify(prot, PTE_ATTRINDX_MASK, PTE_ATTRINDX(MT_NORMAL_NC))
 #define __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT