Re: [PATCH 4/14] Generic ioremap_page_range: arm conversion

From: Russell King
Date: Mon Aug 14 2006 - 03:17:40 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:03:36PM +0200, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> From: Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Convert ARM to use generic ioremap_page_range()

NAK. There are already issues with using the xxx_kernel variants of
the page table functions for IO mappings on later architectures (caused
by speculative loads hitting IO regions.) This code needs to change
slightly so that we have xxx_io versions of pte_alloc and friends.

(It also means that we need an ioremap region and a separate vmalloc
region on ARM...)

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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