[PATCH 2/2] arm: add early_ioremap support

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Jul 9 02:49:26 PDT 2014


On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 10:39:52AM +0100, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> +config EARLY_IOREMAP
> +	depends on MMU
> +	bool "Provide early_ioremap() support for kernel initialization."
> +	select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP

Nit: please order as bool, then depends, then select.

> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> index 8a16ee5..aa2621a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c
> @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
>  #include <asm/cpu.h>
>  #include <asm/cputype.h>
>  #include <asm/elf.h>
> +#include <asm/io.h>

Please always use linux/io.h in preference to asm/io.h.

> +static inline pmd_t * __init early_ioremap_pmd(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> +	unsigned int index = pgd_index(addr);
> +	pgd_t *pgd = cpu_get_pgd() + index;

What is the reasoning for using cpu_get_pgd() ?  Is there some specific
reason you want to read from the hardware register rather than using
the pgd_offset_k() macro here?

> +void __init
> +early_ioremap_shutdown(void)

Nit: should be a single line.

The rest of the patch looks fine, thanks.

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