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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 4/6] mm: ioremap: Add arch_ioremap/iounmap()
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On 2022/5/24 22:47, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 4:32 PM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
>> On 2022/5/24 20:37, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:25 AM Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>> Add special hook for architecture to verify or setup addr, size
>>>> or prot when ioremap() or iounmap(), which will make the generic
>>>> ioremap more useful.
>>>>
>>>> arch_ioremap() return a pointer,
>>>> - IS_ERR means return an error
>>>> - NULL means continue to remap
>>>> - a non-NULL, non-IS_ERR pointer is directly returned
>>>> arch_iounmap() return a int value,
>>>> - 0 means continue to vunmap
>>>> - error code means skip vunmap and return directly
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
>>> I don't really like interfaces that mix error pointers and NULL pointer
>>> returns.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to have a special error code other than NULL
>>> for the fallback case?
>> I don't find a good error code, maybe ENOTSUPP, any better suggestion?
> I had another look at the resulting arm64 function, and it appears that
> you never actually return a non-error pointer here. If I didn't miss anything,
> I think the best way would be to change the return type to just indicate
> success or an error code, and drop the case of returning the actual result,
> and changing the function name accordingly.
>
> Would that work, or do you actually require returning an __iomem
> token from somewhere else?

Christoph  suggested in the first version,

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Ymq2uX%2FY15HlIpo7@infradead.org/

> Arnd
>
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