linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] mm: generic early

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:20:16 -0400
From:	Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
	Rob Herring <robherring2@...il.com>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@...aro.org>,
	"patches@...aro.org" <patches@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] mm: generic early_ioremap support

On Tue, 2014-03-11 at 12:08 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2014 at 05:00:38PM +0000, Mark Salter wrote:
> > This patch series takes the common bits from the x86 early ioremap
> > implementation and creates a generic implementation which may be used
> > by other architectures. The early ioremap interfaces are intended for
> > situations where boot code needs to make temporary virtual mappings
> > before the normal ioremap interfaces are available. Typically, this
> > means before paging_init() has run.
> > 
> > These patches are layered on top of generic fixmap patches which
> > were pulled into upstream 3.14-rc kernels.
> > 
> > This is version 6 of the patch series. These patches fixmap patches
> > may be found at:
> > 
> >   git://github.com/mosalter/linux.git (early-ioremap-v6 branch)
> 
> Are there any acks still needed? I think the arch patches in this series
> have been acked, so I'm happy if hpa or someone else takes the whole
> series.

v6 added a documentation patch which is the only one without an ack.
I was going to give it a few days and then send a pull request
tomorrow (12-Mar). This being mm related, I thought the mmotm tree
may be the place for it, but hpa offered the tip tree and it really
doesn't matter to me which one it goes through.


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