From: Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:25:43 +0000 (+0200) Subject: pci-gart_64.c: could we get better explanation? X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~1106^2~251^10~1 X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa3d319ac6f648dc51cb672a31f482c80a8c2457;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git pci-gart_64.c: could we get better explanation? Add better explanation to pci-gart. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Trivial patch monkey Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c index f505c389035..f20c20a7853 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c @@ -824,10 +824,10 @@ void __init gart_iommu_init(void) wbinvd(); /* - * Try to workaround a bug (thanks to BenH) + * Try to workaround a bug (thanks to BenH): * Set unmapped entries to a scratch page instead of 0. * Any prefetches that hit unmapped entries won't get an bus abort - * then. + * then. (P2P bridge may be prefetching on DMA reads). */ scratch = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL); if (!scratch)