linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/10] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

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Message-ID: <20150721133457.GC8902@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 15:34:57 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] arch: unify ioremap prototypes and macro aliases

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 08:18:00PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Some archs define the first parameter to ioremap() as unsigned long,
> while the balance define it as resource_size_t, similar confusion exists
> for the type of the 'size' parameter.  Unify on (resource_size_t,
> unsigned long) to enable passing ioremap function pointers.  Also, some
> archs use function-like macros for defining ioremap aliases, but
> asm-generic/io.h expects object-like macros, unify on the latter.
> 
> Move all handling of ioremap aliasing (i.e. ioremap_wt => ioremap) to
> include/linux/io.h.  Add a check to lib/devres.c to warn at compile time
> if an arch violates type expectations.

I don't think devres really has aything to do with this code.

> Kill ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WC and ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WT in favor of just
> testing for ioremap_wc, and ioremap_wt being defined.  This arrangement
> allows drivers to know when ioremap_<foo> are being re-directed to plain
> ioremap.  A later patch uses this arrangement to implement support for
> strict mappings.
> 
> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

I only ACKed this as a band-aid to get the pmem code in.  Now that
we got that in with a less invasive hack I don't see any reasons to
do this over doing the proper common prototypes and per-arch runtime checks
of flags variant.
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