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SubjectRe: [PATCH] csky: Fixup ioremap function losing
Thx Christoph,

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:03 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 07:28:57PM +0800, guoren@kernel.org wrote:
> > From: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
> >
> > Implement the following apis to meet usage in different scenarios.
> >
> > - ioremap (NonCache + StrongOrder)
> > - ioremap_nocache (NonCache + StrongOrder)
> > - ioremap_wc (NonCache + WeakOrder )
> > - ioremap_cache ( Cache + WeakOrder )
> >
> > Also change flag VM_ALLOC to VM_IOREMAP in get_vm_area_caller.
>
> Looks generally fine, but two comments:
>
> - do you have a need for ioremap_cache? We are generally try to
> phase it out in favour of memremap, and it is generally only used
> by arch specific code.
Yes, some drivers of our customers use ioremap_cache to map phy_addr
which isn't belong to system memory.

> - I have a big series pending to clean up the mess with our
> ioremap_* functions, including adding a generic implementation
> that csky should be able to use. Unless this patch is urgent it
> might make sense to rebase it on top. Here is my current tree, I
> plan to post it soon:
>
> http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/generic-ioremap
I agree to use GENERIC_IOREMAP, but I want to add csky support
GENERIC_IOREMAP patch by myself.
You could remove "csky: use generic ioremap" in your patchset first
and I'll add support GENERIC_IORMAP patch later.
Then we won't get confilct :)

--
Best Regards
Guo Ren

ML: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-csky/

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