x86: a new API for drivers/etc to control cache and other page attributes

Right now, if drivers or other code want to change, say, a cache attribute of a
page, the only API they have is change_page_attr(). c-p-a is a really bad API
for this, because it forces the caller to know *ALL* the attributes he wants
for the page, not just the 1 thing he wants to change. So code that wants to
set a page uncachable, needs to be aware of the NX status as well etc etc etc.

This patch introduces a set of new APIs for this, set_pages_<attr> and
set_memory_<attr>, that offer a logical change to the user, and leave all
attributes not implied by the requested logical change alone.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-x86/cacheflush.h
index fccb563e2305..7b928d55c190 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/cacheflush.h
@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@
 void global_flush_tlb(void);
 int change_page_attr(struct page *page, int numpages, pgprot_t prot);
 int change_page_attr_addr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, pgprot_t prot);
+
+int set_pages_uc(struct page *page, int numpages);
+int set_pages_wb(struct page *page, int numpages);
+int set_pages_x(struct page *page, int numpages);
+int set_pages_nx(struct page *page, int numpages);
+int set_pages_ro(struct page *page, int numpages);
+int set_pages_rw(struct page *page, int numpages);
+
+int set_memory_uc(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+int set_memory_wb(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+int set_memory_x(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+int set_memory_nx(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+int set_memory_ro(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+int set_memory_rw(unsigned long addr, int numpages);
+
 void clflush_cache_range(void *addr, int size);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA