Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

2015-09-28 Thread Scott Wood
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 06:50:44PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c > index 3fd9083..1f2fdbc 100644 > --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c > +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c > @@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ioremap_bot);

RE: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

2015-09-25 Thread David Laight
From: Scott Wood > Sent: 24 September 2015 21:14 > > Isn't this a more general problem? > > > > If there are multiple remap requests for the same physical page > > shouldn't the kernel be just increasing a reference count somewhere > > and returning address in the same virtual page? > > This

Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

2015-09-25 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 14:46 +, David Laight wrote: > From: Scott Wood > > Sent: 24 September 2015 21:14 > > > Isn't this a more general problem? > > > > > > If there are multiple remap requests for the same physical page > > > shouldn't the kernel be just increasing a reference count

RE: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

2015-09-24 Thread David Laight
From: Christophe Leroy > Sent: 22 September 2015 17:51 ... > Traditionaly, each driver manages one computer board which has its > own components with its own memory maps. > But on embedded chips like the MPC8xx, the SOC has all registers > located in the same IO area. > > When looking at ioremaps

Re: [PATCH v2 08/25] powerpc/8xx: Map IMMR area with 512k page at a fixed address

2015-09-24 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 11:41 +, David Laight wrote: > From: Christophe Leroy > > Sent: 22 September 2015 17:51 > ... > > Traditionaly, each driver manages one computer board which has its > > own components with its own memory maps. > > But on embedded chips like the MPC8xx, the SOC has all