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Dexuan Cui db49200b1d video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM
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x86 Hyper-V used to essentially always overwrite the effective cache type
of guest memory accesses to WB. This was problematic in cases where there
is a physical device assigned to the VM, since that often requires that
the VM should have control over cache types. Thus, on newer Hyper-V since
2018, Hyper-V always honors the VM's cache type, but unexpectedly Linux VM
users start to complain that Linux VM's VRAM becomes very slow, and it
turns out that Linux VM should not map the VRAM uncacheable by ioremap().
Fix this slowness issue by using ioremap_cache().

On ARM64, ioremap_cache() is also required as the host also maps the VRAM
cacheable, otherwise VM Connect can't display properly with ioremap() or
ioremap_wc().

With this change, the VRAM on new Hyper-V is as fast as regular RAM, so
it's no longer necessary to use the hacks we added to mitigate the
slowness, i.e. we no longer need to allocate physical memory and use
it to back up the VRAM in Generation-1 VM, and we also no longer need to
allocate physical memory to back up the framebuffer in a Generation-2 VM
and copy the framebuffer to the real VRAM. A further big change will
address these for v5.11.

Fixes: 68a2d20b79 ("drivers/video: add Hyper-V Synthetic Video Frame Buffer Driver")
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201118000305.24797-1-decui@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-12-02 08:49:51 +01:00
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fbdev video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM 2020-12-02 08:49:51 +01:00
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Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
display_timing.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428 2019-06-05 17:37:16 +02:00
hdmi.c video/hdmi: Fix AVI bar unpack 2019-12-17 19:56:42 +01:00
of_display_timing.c video: of: display_timing: Don't yell if no timing node is present 2019-07-26 16:32:26 +02:00
of_videomode.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428 2019-06-05 17:37:16 +02:00
vgastate.c Video: vgastate: fixed a spacing coding style 2018-10-08 12:57:35 +02:00
videomode.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428 2019-06-05 17:37:16 +02:00