Re: [PATCH] arm64/xen: redefine xen_remap on arm64

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Mark Salter wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 14:55 +0800, Chen Baozi wrote:
> > xen_remap used to be defined as ioremap_cached on arm64. In commit
> > c04e8e2fe, a new ioremap_cache was implemented, and ioremap_cached
> > was deleted, while xen_remap stays the same. This would lead to
> > the failure when building with CONFIG_HVC_XEN. Redefined xen_remap
> > on arm64 as ioremap_cache on arm64 to fix it.
> > 
> 
> I missed that include of arm header by arm64 when looking for users
> of arm64's ioremap_cached() when working on commit c04e8e2fe. Anyway,
> grepping the kernel tree, I see:
> 
>   ioremap_cached()
>     defined by: arm, metag, unicore32
>     used by: arch/arm/include/asm/xen/page.h
>              drivers/mtd/maps/pxa2xx-flash.c
> 
>   ioremap_cache()
>     defined by: arm64, sh, xtensa, ia64, x86
>     used by: drivers/video/vesafb.c
>              drivers/char/toshiba.c
>              drivers/acpi/apei
>              drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c
>              drivers/sfi/sfi_core.c
>              include/linux/acpi_io.h
> 
> I think it would be better to just avoid the confusion and the ifdef in
> asm/xen/page.h by globally changing ioremap_cached to ioremap_cache.

While I welcome the suggestion, this is a critical fix for a regression
that I think should go in as soon as possible, maybe 3.13-rc7, while I
don't think that a global s/ioremap_cached/ioremap_cache would be
acceptable at this stage.
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