[PATCH v2 1/3] ACPI: osl: Add __force attribute in acpi_os_map_iomem() cast

Lorenzo Pieralisi lorenzo.pieralisi at arm.com
Wed Aug 11 07:55:08 PDT 2021


On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:40:28PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > The whole problem we are solving here is that ACPI, being based on
> > x86, conflates MMIO mappings with memory mappings, and has been using
> > the same underlying infrastructure for either.
> 
> So let's fix that problem instead of papering over it.

Patch (3) in this series is a fix - I would ask whether it makes
sense to merge patches (2-3) now and think about reworking the current
ACPI IO/MEM mapping API later, it can be an invasive change for a fix,
assuming we agree on how to rework the ACPI IO/MEM mapping API.

Lorenzo



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