Re: [PATCH] usb: devio: fix mmap() on non-coherent DMA architectures

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On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:57:00AM -0700, Gavin Li wrote:
> usbfs mmap() looks like it was introduced for 4.6 in commit
> f7d34b445abc, so it should probably be backported to 4.9 and onwards.
> This issue has been present since the introduction of the feature.
> 
> One sidenote: this patch will cause the following warning on x86 due
> to dmap_mmap_coherent() trying to map normal memory in as uncached:
> 
> x86/PAT: ... map pfn RAM range req uncached-minus for [mem
> 0x77b000000-0x77b210fff], got write-back
> 
> This warning is harmless, as x86 is DMA coherent and the memory gets
> correctly mapped in as write-back. I will submit a patch to the DMA
> mapping team to eliminate this warning.

Let me know what the git commit id of that patch is, I will wait for it
to hit the tree before adding this one.

thanks,

greg k-h



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