Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64: Cleanup ioremap() and support ioremap_prot()

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 11:46:12AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> That's not a massively compelling diffstat for a cleanup, in all honesty.
> I looked at generic_access_phys() to try to figure out why we would want
> that on arm64, but it seems like it's related to mmap() of devices in
> userspace. Bearing in mind that CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM=y by default, please
> can you justify why this is something worth doing?

While I don't care much about ioremap_prot I'd really love to eventually
convert everyone to the common ioremap code as there really is no
point in duplicating it in the architectures.