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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 16:58:24 -0700
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] cleanup IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE vs ioremap()
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> wrote:
> Quoting Arnd:
> I was thinking the opposite approach and basically removing all uses
> of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE from the kernel. There are only a handful of
> them.and we can probably replace them all with hardcoded
> ioremap_cached() calls in the cases they are actually useful.
>
> All existing usages of IORESOURCE_CACHEABLE call ioremap() instead of
> ioremap_nocache() if the resource is cacheable, however ioremap() is
> uncached by default. Clearly none of the existing usages care about the
> cacheability, so let's clean that up before introducing generic
> ioremap_cache() support across architectures.
>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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