Re: [PATCH v5 12/16] PCI: Add pci_iomap_host_shared(), pci_iomap_host_shared_range()

From: Dan Williams
Date: Tue Oct 12 2021 - 15:13:27 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:57 AM Reshetova, Elena
<elena.reshetova@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I suspect the true number is even higher because that doesn't include IO
> > inside calls to other modules and indirect pointers, correct?
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> Actually everything should be included. Smatch has cross-function db and
> I am using it for getting the call chains and it follows function pointers.
> Also since I am starting from a list of individual read IOs, every single
> base read IO in drivers/* should be covered as far as I can see. But if it uses
> some weird IO wrappers then the actual list might be higher.

Why analyze individual IO calls? I thought the goal here was to
disable entire classes of ioremap() users?