From: jamie@jamieiles.com (Jamie Iles)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/23] mach/vmalloc.h removal, and ioremap optimization
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:04:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111118100400.GB8023@totoro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321422521-1138-1-git-send-email-nico@fluxnic.net>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:48:18AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> This patch series removes all instances of mach/vmalloc.h in order to
> have a more unified memory map across all ARM architectures. To do so,
> the static mappings are moved inside the vmalloc area. And finally this
> allows for a generic optimization to ioremap where static mappings are
> reused whenever possible, using common code instead of having this
> duplicated in a couple places.
>
> This series provides a net reduction of more than 1200 lines of code.
>
> One regression was discovered on shmobile during testing because that
> platform asks for 158MB of consistent DMA memory while the documented
> maximum is 14MB. Inspection of the code doesn't tell why this is
> required, and listed maintainers did not respond yet, two months
> after repeated inquiries. So a temporary exception to the definition
> of VMALLOC_END was added for CONFIG_SHMOBILE and a noisy warning to
> get those maintainers' attention.
>
> This patch series was initially submitted for inclusion for v3.1, and
> withdrawn due to too many problems found on OMAP. Those problems are
> now fixed in current mainline. This is therefore rebased on v3.2-rc2.
Works great on picoxcell. Thanks Nicolas!
Tested-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-16 5:48 [PATCH 0/23] mach/vmalloc.h removal, and ioremap optimization Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 01/23] ARM: mach-dove: remove inclusion of <mach/vmalloc.h> Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 02/23] ARM: mach-prima2: don't define SIRFSOC_VA in terms of VMALLOC_END Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 03/23] ARM: plat-mxc: remove inclusion of <mach/vmalloc.h> Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 04/23] ARM: mach-at91: remove arch specific special handling for ioremap Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 05/23] ARM: mach-davinci: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 06/23] ARM: mach-tegra: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 07/23] ARM: plat-omap: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-18 18:39 ` Kevin Hilman
2011-12-02 20:21 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-02 21:39 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-05 23:21 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-05 23:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-12-06 0:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-06 0:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-12-06 4:09 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-06 4:46 ` Tony Lindgren
2011-12-06 8:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 08/23] ARM: mach-bcmring: use proper constant to identify DMA memory area Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 09/23] ARM: mach-orion5x: remove arch specific special handling for ioremap Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 10/23] ARM: mach-kirkwood: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 11/23] ARM: mach-ixp23xx: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-18 0:03 ` Deepak Saxena
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 12/23] ARM: plat-iop: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 13/23] ARM: versatile: remove overlapping map_desc entry Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 14/23] ARM: realview: fix map_desc alignment Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 15/23] ARM: realview-eb11mp: " Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 16/23] ARM: sort the meminfo array earlier Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 17/23] ARM: move initialization of the high_memory variable earlier Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 18/23] mm: add vm_area_add_early() Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 19/23] ARM: move iotable mappings within the vmalloc region Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 20/23] ARM: simplify __iounmap() when dealing with section based mapping Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 21/23] ARM: add generic ioremap optimization by reusing static mappings Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-22 10:16 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-22 13:44 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 22/23] ARM: big removal of now unused vmalloc.h files Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 5:48 ` [PATCH 23/23] ARM: move VMALLOC_END down temporarily for shmobile Nicolas Pitre
2011-12-16 5:34 ` Magnus Damm
2011-12-17 16:41 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-16 17:13 ` [PATCH 0/23] mach/vmalloc.h removal, and ioremap optimization Stephen Warren
2011-11-16 23:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-11-18 10:04 ` Jamie Iles [this message]
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