linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] mips: dmi: Fix early remap on MIPS32

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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:29:31 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>
Cc:     Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Yinglu Yang <yangyinglu@...ngson.cn>,
        Alexey Malahov <Alexey.Malahov@...kalelectronics.ru>,
        Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@...mia.com>,
        Aleksandar Rikalo <arikalo@...il.com>,
        Dragan Mladjenovic <dragan.mladjenovic@...mia.com>,
        Chao-ying Fu <cfu@...ecomp.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] mips: dmi: Fix early remap on MIPS32

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 12:13:11PM +0000, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> > Ok. Thanks for the heads up. I'll fix the patch to be using ioremap()
> > in v2. ioremap_uc() is just an macro-alias of ioremap() on MIPS.
> 
> Perhaps we need to fix ioremap_cache so it can give a KSEG1 address?

KSEG0 ?

> AFAIK for Loongson DMI is located at cached memory so using ioremap_uc
> blindly will cause inconsistency.

why ?

Thomas.

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