Git pull request: mach/vmalloc.h removal, and ioremap optimizations

Rob Herring robherring2 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 17:19:06 EDT 2011


On 09/29/2011 03:47 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
>> On 09/29/2011 01:42 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Rob Herring wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 09/29/2011 12:37 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>>>>> My guess would be:
>>>>>
>>>>>         }, {
>>>>>                 .virtual        =  IO_ADDRESS(VERSATILE_SCTL_BASE),
>>>>>                 .pfn            = __phys_to_pfn(VERSATILE_SCTL_BASE),
>>>>>                 .length         = SZ_4K * 9,
>>>>>                 .type           = MT_DEVICE
>>>>>         },
>>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_MACH_VERSATILE_AB
>>>>>         {
>>>>>                 .virtual        =  IO_ADDRESS(VERSATILE_GPIO0_BASE),
>>>>>                 .pfn            = __phys_to_pfn(VERSATILE_GPIO0_BASE),
>>>>>                 .length         = SZ_4K,
>>>>>                 .type           = MT_DEVICE
>>>>>
>>>>> #define VERSATILE_SCTL_BASE            0x101E0000	/* System controller */
>>>>> #define VERSATILE_GPIO0_BASE           0x101E4000	/* GPIO port 0 */
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't see why GPIO0 is explicitly listed here.
>>>>
>>>> It works for PB and AB with that removed. Here's a patch:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Thanks for testing and the patch.  I've inserted it in my patch series 
>>> and pushed the result out.
>>
>> So it was really Realview PBX I wanted to test my GIC changes on. Well,
>> turns out it's got a similar problem, too.
>>
>> However, the fix for it should perhaps be a bit different. The problem
>> is that the virtual address of REALVIEW_PBX_TILE_GIC_CPU_BASE is not
>> aligned. Then 0x100 + 4KB length overlaps into the DIST_BASE. So do we
>> fix it in the platform or should the core code mask out the lower bits
>> of the virt addr before doing any size calculations?
> 
> Please fix it in the platform static declaration.  No need to put 
> run time code for something that can be fixed in the source.
> 
Except that 2 out of 2 machines I've tried are broken. Anyway, patch is
coming.

Rob



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