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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/4] devm: fix ioremap_cache() usage
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2015, Dan Williams wrote:
>> @@ -154,7 +148,7 @@ void __iomem *devm_ioremap_resource(struct device *dev, struct resource *res)
>> }
>>
>> if (res->flags & IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE)
>> - dest_ptr = devm_ioremap(dev, res->start, size);
>> + dest_ptr = devm_ioremap_cache(dev, res->start, size);
>> else
>> dest_ptr = devm_ioremap_nocache(dev, res->start, size);
>
> I think the existing uses of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE are mostly bugs, so changing
> the behavior here may cause more problems than it solves.
>

Ok, but that effectively makes devm_ioremap_resource() unusable for
the cached case. How about introducing devm_ioremap_cache_resource(),
and cleaning up devm_ioremap_resource() to stop pretending that it is
honoring the memory type of the resource?


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