Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:02:10 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: 8250_lpss: Switch to pcim_iomap() instead of pci_ioremap_bar() |
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 10:14:16AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 16. 02. 22, 9:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 03:43:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > > The pci_iounmap() doesn't cover all the cases where resource should > > > be unmapped. Instead of spreading it more, replace the pci_ioremap_bar() > > > with pcim_iomap() which uses managed resource approach. > > > > pcim_iomap requires the use of ioreadX/iowriteX and thus runtime > > overhead. So in doubt please add a pcim_ioremap_bar instead of forcing > > the legacy iomap/ioread/iowrite API onto modern drivers tht can't > > support legacy port I/O. > > Hmm, the driver combines pci_ioremap_bar with pci_iounmap. pci_iounmap does > the right thing after all, but is that correct? And this driver is not > alone, this shows more: > git grep -E 'pci_iounmap|pci_ioremap_bar' `git grep -l pci_iounmap \`git > grep -l pci_ioremap_bar\``
I think it is wrong. It is not actively harmful unlike the the combination of pci_iomap and then later use of accessors from the ioremap family, but still not exactly a good idea.
In a perfect world we'd have some different annotation from __iomem for the whole iomap family of functions.
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