Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] mm/ioremap: Consider IOREMAP space in generic ioremap

From: Alexander Gordeev
Date: Sun Oct 16 2022 - 03:55:41 EST


On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 12:39:11PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> "Some" means exactly powerpc64, right? It looks like microblaze
> and powerpc32 still share some of this code, but effectively
> just use the vmalloc area once the slab allocator is up.
>
> Is the special case still useful for powerpc64 or could this be
> changed to do it the same as everything else?

Or make it the other way around and set IOREMAP_START/IOREMAP_END
to VMALLOC_START/VMALLOC_END by default?

>
> Arnd