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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/i386.c b/arch/x86/pci/i386.c
index f884740da318..5ead808dd70c 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;
                 }