linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] RISC-V: Fix ioremap_cache() and ioremap

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Date:   Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:     apatel@...tanamicro.com, Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        atishp@...shpatra.org, heiko@...ech.de, anup@...infault.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mchitale@...tanamicro.com
Subject:     Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] RISC-V: Fix ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wc() for systems with Svpbmt

On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:14:30 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 09:35:56AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
>> Sorry I missed this, I thought it was just part of the rest of this patch
>> set.  That said, I'm not actually sure this is a critical fix: sure it's a
>> performance problem, and if some driver is expecting ioremap_cache() to go
>> fast then possibly a pretty big one, but the only Svpmbt hardware that
>
> More importantly nothing should be using ioremap_cache at all.  It is
> an API that has long been deprecated in favor of memremap.

There's a few uses of it, I just send along a patch to make it 
arch-specific and make the users depend on it.  That should let us stop 
adding this to ports just to get the drivers building.