[PATCH 0/19] removal of mach/vmalloc.h and generic optimizations

Jamie Iles jamie at jamieiles.com
Fri Sep 16 09:26:02 EDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:07:11AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> This patch series removes all instances of mach/vmalloc.h in order to
> have a more unified memory map across all ARM architectures.  To do so,
> the static mappings are moved inside the vmalloc area.  And finally this
> allows for a generic optimization to ioremap where static mappings are
> reused whenever possible, using common code instead of having this
> duplicated in a couple places.
> 
> This also provides a net reduction of more than 1200 lines of code.

Tested-by: Jamie Iles <jamie at jamieiles.com>

Jamie



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