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

[Michael Ellerman]

"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022, at 9:54 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Sure, if there is a reason for actually making them different.
> From the git history, it appears that before commit 3d5134ee8341
> ("[POWERPC] Rewrite IO allocation & mapping on powerpc64"), the
> ioremap() and vmalloc() handling was largely duplicated. Ben
> cleaned it up by making most of the implementation shared but left
> the separate address spaces.
>
> My guess is that there was no technical reason for this, other
> than having no reason to change the behavior at the time.

I think the immediate reason for it is that on some CPUs we have to use
4K pages in the HPT for IO mappings, but PAGE_SIZE == 64K, and we can
only have a single page size per segment (256M or 1T).

cheers