Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] memremap: add arch specific hook for MEMREMAP_WB mappings

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, the memremap code serves MEMREMAP_WB mappings directly from
> the kernel direct mapping, unless the region is in high memory, in which
> case it falls back to using ioremap_cache(). However, the semantics of
> ioremap_cache() are not unambiguously defined, and on ARM, it will
> actually result in a mapping type that differs from the attributes used
> for the linear mapping, and for this reason, the ioremap_cache() call
> fails if the region is part of the memory managed by the kernel.
>
> So instead, implement an optional hook 'arch_memremap_wb' whose default
> implementation calls ioremap_cache() as before, but which can be
> overridden by the architecture to do what is appropriate for it.
>

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>

I still have patches pending to delete ioremap_cache() from ARM and
require memremap() to be used for cacheable mappings.  Do you see any
use for ioremap_cache() on ARM after this change?