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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 1/2] memremap: add arch specific hook for MEMREMAP_WB mappings
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On 22 February 2016 at 20:05, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>> Currently, the memremap code serves MEMREMAP_WB mappings directly from
>> the kernel direct mapping, unless the region is in high memory, in which
>> case it falls back to using ioremap_cache(). However, the semantics of
>> ioremap_cache() are not unambiguously defined, and on ARM, it will
>> actually result in a mapping type that differs from the attributes used
>> for the linear mapping, and for this reason, the ioremap_cache() call
>> fails if the region is part of the memory managed by the kernel.
>>
>> So instead, implement an optional hook 'arch_memremap_wb' whose default
>> implementation calls ioremap_cache() as before, but which can be
>> overridden by the architecture to do what is appropriate for it.
>>
>
> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
>
> I still have patches pending to delete ioremap_cache() from ARM and
> require memremap() to be used for cacheable mappings. Do you see any
> use for ioremap_cache() on ARM after this change?

I am not exactly sure why ioremap_cache() does not use MT_MEMORY_RW
attributes, but the ARM architecture simply does not allow mismatched
attributes, so we cannot simply replace each instance of
ioremap_cache() with memremap()

Perhaps Russell can explain?

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