On 30 November 2017 at 17:42, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheu...@linaro.org> > Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:37:27 +0000 > >> Well, the whole point of using memremap() instead of ioremap() is that >> the region has memory semantics, i.e., we read the MAC address and the >> DMA engine microcode from it. If memremap() itself is flawed in this >> regard, I agree we should fix it. But as I understand it, this is >> really an implementation problem in memremap() [the fact that it falls >> back to ioremap()] and not a problem in this driver. >> >> So what alternative would you propose in this case? >> >> BTW, this should be IOREMAP_WC not IOREMAP_WT, because the EEPROM on >> the platform in question does not tolerate cached mappings (or rather, >> shareable mappings). ioremap_wt() happens to result in device mappings >> rather than writethrough cacheable mappings, but this is another >> problem in itself. Once arm64 fixes ioremap_wt(), this code will no >> longer work on the SynQuacer SoC. > > It doesn't "fall back", it directly uses ioremap_wt() for non-RAM > mappings. > > It you look, most architectures do a "#define iomrep_wt ioremap"
OK, but that still means the implementation of memremap() is flawed, not its use in this driver. memremap() exists to allow non-DRAM regions to be mapped with memory semantics, and if we currently implement that incorrectly, we should fix it. But that still does not mean we should have __iomem annotations and special accessors in this case, precisely because it has memory semantics, and so it is a virtual pointer that may be dereferenced normally. So if memremap() is unsuitable, how should we map memory that is not DRAM?
