pci-gart_64.c: could we get better explanation?
authorPavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:25:43 +0000 (00:25 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:17:18 +0000 (15:17 +0200)
Add better explanation to pci-gart.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Trivial patch monkey <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c

index f505c38903583dad2a856a2d7c3933f7d539b183..f20c20a7853d051ab74798092dab5f32b72f2200 100644 (file)
@@ -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)