[PATCH v2 0/3] fix memremap on ARM

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 3 11:36:25 PST 2016


On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 07:07:05PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> OK. But I'd still like Russell to indicate whether he agrees with all
> of this, i.e., wire up memremap() to perform MT_MEMORY_RW mappings in
> the vmalloc area of memory regions that may be potentially be covered
> by highmem as well.

I'm happy to go that way: go back to ioremap_cached() for pxa2xx-flash
and switch memremap() to MT_MEMORY_RW - I think that makes total sense.

I think it is worth putting a comment against ioremap_cached() saying
that it's for pxa2xx-flash.c though, and deprecated for new uses.

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