[RFC 05/18] arm: msm: implement ioremap_strongly_ordered

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 02:47:24PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> From: Larry Bassel <lbassel at quicinc.com>
> 
> Both the clean and invalidate functionality needed
> for the video encoder and 7x27 barrier code
> need to have a strongly ordered mapping set up
> so that one may perform a write to strongly ordered
> memory. The generic ARM code does not provide this.
> 
> The generic ARM code does provide MT_DEVICE, which starts
> as strongly ordered, but the code later turns the buffered flag
> on for ARMv6 in order to make the device shared. This is not
> suitable for my purpose, so this patch adds code for a
> MT_DEVICE_STRONGLY_ORDERED mapping type.

This doesn't really describe what "my purpose" is; the patch description
is too vague to ascertain why this is required.