Re: [PATCH 13/20] intel-iommu: switch from ioremap_cache to memremap

[Joerg Roedel]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 03:19:24PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi Dan,
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:16:46PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >>> In preparation for deprecating ioremap_cache() convert its usage in
> >>> intel-iommu to memremap.  This also eliminates the mishandling of the
> >>> __iomem annotation in the implementation.
> >>
> >> I appreciate the change, but in the cover letter you write the API is
> >> only implemented for x86 so far? The VT-d driver is also used on ia64,
> >> will it still work there with this patch?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I did convert ia64 in the series [1]  but you're right this patch
> > can't go in independently of that conversion.  If you ack this one
> > I'll carry them in order.
> >
> > [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/9/702
> 
> Ah sorry, got ahead of myself ;-p.  You can safely take this patch
> through your tree.  The ia64 patch can happen asynchronously because
> kernel/memremap.c has:
> 
> __weak void *arch_memremap(resource_size_t offset, size_t size,
> unsigned long flags)
> 
> ...as a temporary fallback until the conversion is complete.

Okay, thanks, applied.
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