Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] arch: introduce memremap_cache() and memremap_wt()

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Existing users of ioremap_cache() are mapping memory that is known in
>> advance to not have i/o side effects.  These users are forced to cast
>> away the __iomem annotation, or otherwise neglect to fix the sparse
>> errors thrown when dereferencing pointers to this memory.  Provide
>> memremap_*() as a non __iomem annotated ioremap_*().
>>
>> The ARCH_HAS_MEMREMAP kconfig symbol is introduced for archs to assert
>> that it is safe to recast / reuse the return value from ioremap as a
>> normal pointer to memory.  In other words, archs that mandate specific
>> accessors for __iomem are not memremap() capable and drivers that care,
>> like pmem, can add a dependency to disable themselves on these archs.
>
> One minor comment. Otherwise looks good for me.
>
> []
>
>> --- a/kernel/resource.c
>> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
>
>> @@ -528,6 +528,45 @@ int region_is_ram(resource_size_t start, unsigned long size)
>>         return ret;
>>  }
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMREMAP
>> +/*
>> + * memremap() is "ioremap" for cases where it is known that the resource
>> + * being mapped does not have i/o side effects and the __iomem
>> + * annotation is not applicable.
>> + */
>> +static bool memremap_valid(resource_size_t offset, size_t size)
>> +{
>> +       if (region_is_ram(offset, size) != 0) {
>> +               WARN_ONCE(1, "memremap attempted on ram %pa size: %zd\n",
>
> %zu

Sure, thanks for taking a look Andy!
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