From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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://pilppa.com/gitweb/?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 <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>
---

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)