x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()

The effort to replace mtrr_add() with architecture agnostic
arch_phys_wc_add() is complete, this will ensure write-combining
implementations (PAT on x86) is taken advantage instead of using
MTRR. With the effort done now, hide direct MTRR access for
drivers.

The legacy user-space /proc/mtrr ABI is not affected.

Update x86 documentation on MTRR to reflect the completion of
the phasing out of direct access to MTRR, also add a note on
platform firmware code use of MTRRs based on the obituary
discussion of MTRRs on Linux [0].

  [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438991330[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Walls <[email protected]>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Doug Ledford <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <[email protected]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <[email protected]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
index 860bc3adc223440df4f6a4aec7bc9fdf95e38c75..dc3e703913ac261ca6d54bc89777266f22d986ab 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
+++ b/Documentation/x86/mtrr.txt
@@ -6,10 +6,22 @@ Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]> - April 9, 2015
 ===============================================================================
 Phasing out MTRR use
 
-MTRR use is replaced on modern x86 hardware with PAT. Over time the only type
-of effective MTRR that is expected to be supported will be for write-combining.
-As MTRR use is phased out device drivers should use arch_phys_wc_add() to make
-MTRR effective on non-PAT systems while a no-op on PAT enabled systems.
+MTRR use is replaced on modern x86 hardware with PAT. Direct MTRR use by
+drivers on Linux is now completely phased out, device drivers should use
+arch_phys_wc_add() in combination with ioremap_wc() to make MTRR effective on
+non-PAT systems while a no-op but equally effective on PAT enabled systems.
+
+Even if Linux does not use MTRRs directly, some x86 platform firmware may still
+set up MTRRs early before booting the OS. They do this as some platform
+firmware may still have implemented access to MTRRs which would be controlled
+and handled by the platform firmware directly. An example of platform use of
+MTRRs is through the use of SMI handlers, one case could be for fan control,
+the platform code would need uncachable access to some of its fan control
+registers. Such platform access does not need any Operating System MTRR code in
+place other than mtrr_type_lookup() to ensure any OS specific mapping requests
+are aligned with platform MTRR setup. If MTRRs are only set up by the platform
+firmware code though and the OS does not make any specific MTRR mapping
+requests mtrr_type_lookup() should always return MTRR_TYPE_INVALID.
 
 For details refer to Documentation/x86/pat.txt.
 

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
index e7ed0d8ebacb158833ea248c2d3efb6d2d6379de..f891b4750f04c00b296b84598aa396bcbe9724c7 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c
@@ -448,7 +448,6 @@ int mtrr_add(unsigned long base, unsigned long size, unsigned int type,
        return mtrr_add_page(base >> PAGE_SHIFT, size >> PAGE_SHIFT, type,
                             increment);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mtrr_add);
 
 /**
  * mtrr_del_page - delete a memory type region
@@ -537,7 +536,6 @@ int mtrr_del(int reg, unsigned long base, unsigned long size)
                return -EINVAL;
        return mtrr_del_page(reg, base >> PAGE_SHIFT, size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(mtrr_del);
 
 /**
  * arch_phys_wc_add - add a WC MTRR and handle errors if PAT is unavailable