[PATCH 08/10] arch: introduce strict_ioremap
From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-21 16:11:31
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From: Dan Williams <hidden>
Date: 2015-07-21 16:11:31
Also in:
linux-arch, lkml
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:18:17PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:quoted
In preparation for enabling memremap(), add support for strict mappings. strict_ioremap_<type>() returns NULL if the arch does not implement the mapping type, rather than falling back silently to ioremap().Please don't introduce another large number of ioremap variants. I think we should go straight to the ioremap_flags variant, although I wonder if we should even bother with ioremap_flags for this use case, given that we really want memremap-like semantics for anything that isn't plain ioremap (and maybe ioremap_nocache). Sorry or being the downer, but I really think we need to clean up this mess deeply insted of trying to paper over it.
No worries. I'll rework the series around the idea that memremap() is a replacement rather than a wrapper for ioremap_<type>().