On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> wrote:
> Existing users of ioremap_cache() are mapping memory that is known in
> advance to not have i/o side effects. These users are forced to cast
> away the __iomem annotation, or otherwise neglect to fix the sparse
> errors thrown when dereferencing pointers to this memory. Provide
> memremap_*() as a non __iomem annotated ioremap_*().
>
> The ARCH_HAS_MEMREMAP kconfig symbol is introduced for archs to assert
> that it is safe to recast / reuse the return value from ioremap as a
> normal pointer to memory. In other words, archs that mandate specific
> accessors for __iomem are not memremap() capable and drivers that care,
> like pmem, can add a dependency to disable themselves on these archs.
One minor comment. Otherwise looks good for me.
[]
> --- a/kernel/resource.c
> +++ b/kernel/resource.c
> @@ -528,6 +528,45 @@ int region_is_ram(resource_size_t start, unsigned long
> size)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_MEMREMAP
> +/*
> + * memremap() is "ioremap" for cases where it is known that the resource
> + * being mapped does not have i/o side effects and the __iomem
> + * annotation is not applicable.
> + */
> +static bool memremap_valid(resource_size_t offset, size_t size)
> +{
> + if (region_is_ram(offset, size) != 0) {
> + WARN_ONCE(1, "memremap attempted on ram %pa size: %zd\n",
%zu
> + &offset, size);
> + return false;
> + }
> + return true;
> +}
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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