linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:24:10 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"Kani, Toshimitsu" <toshi.kani@...com>,
	"linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Luis Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@...onical.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	mpe@...erman.id.au, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:04:47AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Thanks, definitely a long shot at this point, but this is what one
> gets for fixing rather than working around broken base infrastructure.
> It would be unfortunate if we went another cycle with pmem having both
> poor performance and broken persistence guarantees.

Maybe we can aim for the minimal fix for 4.2 that just adds meremap
and the accessors for x86 and the do the big scale cleanups for 4.3?
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