linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: atyfb: only use ioremap

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Message-ID: <20191113072708.GA3213@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:27:08 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Cc:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Tuowen Zhao <ztuowen@...il.com>,
        AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@...onical.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Roman Gilg <subdiff@...il.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Linux Fbdev development list <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: atyfb: only use ioremap_uc() on i386 and
 ia64

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:24:23PM +0000, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> I think this would be possible if we could flop ioremap_nocache() to UC
> instead of UC- on x86. Otherwise, I can't see how we can remove this by
> still not allowing direct MTRR calls.

If everything goes well ioremap_nocache will be gone as of 5.5.