From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache()
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:58:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427.155834.189904598.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48150392.6040508@zytor.com>
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:52:02 -0700
> Arguably, the right thing is to not even have ioremap() anymore, just
> ioremap_{cache,nocache,wc} and consider any unconverted ioremap() as a
> flag to audit that particular piece of code.
>
> I don't think that can be done "instantly", though, so defaulting
> ioremap() to uncached (as it apparently has been on other arches
> already?) is the conservative option in the meantime.
I think this is a reasonable course of action.
That leaves one of Jeff's concerns, what to do with pci_iomap(). That
was designed to give mappings with caching enabled, and as a result we
probably should make it behave that way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 20:51 Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree James Bottomley
2008-04-27 20:53 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 21:48 ` [patch] x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 22:05 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-27 22:36 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-27 22:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 23:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-27 23:31 ` David Miller
2008-04-28 0:31 ` Rik van Riel
2008-04-28 0:45 ` Al Viro
2008-04-28 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 9:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-28 9:17 ` David Miller
2008-04-28 9:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-28 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 6:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-04-28 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:34 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-27 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 22:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:46 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 22:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:58 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-04-27 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-30 20:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-27 23:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 23:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 22:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:59 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 23:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-27 23:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-27 23:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-30 21:44 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-30 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 23:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-28 14:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-28 14:29 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-28 15:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-28 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:00 ` Breakage caused by unreviewed patch in x86 tree H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:10 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-27 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:18 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-27 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-27 22:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-27 23:00 ` David Miller
2008-04-27 23:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-27 23:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-27 23:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-04-27 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
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