Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2014 09:45:08 +0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] ARM: ioremap: Add IO mapping space reused support. | From | Richard Lee <> |
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> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Monday 12 May 2014 10:19:55 Richard Lee wrote: >> For the IO mapping, for the same physical address space maybe >> mapped more than one time, for example, in some SoCs: >> 0x20000000 ~ 0x20001000: are global control IO physical map, >> and this range space will be used by many drivers. >> And then if each driver will do the same ioremap operation, we >> will waste to much malloc virtual spaces. >> >> This patch add IO mapping space reused support. >> >> Signed-off-by: Richard Lee <superlibj@gmail.com> > > What happens if the first driver then unmaps the area? >
If the first driver will unmap the area, it shouldn't do any thing except decreasing the 'used' counter.
Thanks,
BRs Richard Lee
> Arnd
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