Re: [PATCH] highmem: fix highmem for xtensa

[Thomas Gleixner]

Max,

On Mon, Nov 16 2020 at 06:47, Max Filippov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 2:34 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I agree that the top down mechanics is not really intuitive, but that
>> does not justify the ifdeffery in the generic code.
>
> But then maybe xtensa did the right thing where everyone else just
> copied the not really intuitive implementation? If nobody else cares
> then maybe generic fix_to_virt/virt_to_fix can be changed for positive
> indexing?

Which requires to change 9 architectures instead of one for a feature
which is barely used nowadays and which we rather want to get rid of.

Thanks,

        tglx