linux-kernel - Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1)

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Date:	Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:00:22 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches
 for 2.6.27-rc1)

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:53:20 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> struct resource {
>         resource_size_t start;
>         resource_size_t end;
>         const char *name;
>         unsigned long flags;
>         struct resource *parent, *sibling, *child;
> +       void *mapping;
> };
> 
> The APIs would be:
> 
>   int   io_resource_init_mapping(struct resource *res);
>  void   io_resource_free_mapping(struct resource *res);
>  void * io_resource_map(struct resource *res, pfn_t pfn, unsigned
> long offset); void   io_resource_unmap(struct resource *res, void
> *kaddr);
> 
> Note how simple and consistent it all gets: IO resources already know 
> their physical location and their size limits. Being able to cache an 
> ioremap in a mapping [and being able to use atomic kmaps on 32-bit]
> is a relatively simple and natural extension to the concept.

and making a simple wrapper around this that turns "struct pci_dev,
barnr" into a resource would make sense too, but yes.

We need one more

io_resource_force_cachability(struct resource, cachetype)

or maybe only

io_resource_force_writecombine(struct resource)




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