From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:41:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH v2] arm64: allow ioremap_cache() to use existing RAM mappings In-Reply-To: <1382626457.1768.80.camel@deneb.redhat.com> References: <1382362594-24947-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com> <1382519898.10408.1.camel@mbp> <1382535972.1768.68.camel@deneb.redhat.com> <20131023143717.GA19317@mbp> <1382626457.1768.80.camel@deneb.redhat.com> Message-ID: <20131029164142.GF3472@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 03:54:17PM +0100, Mark Salter wrote: > Some drivers (ACPI notably) use ioremap_cache() to map an area which could > either be outside of kernel RAM or in an already mapped reserved area of > RAM. To avoid aliases with different caching attributes, ioremap() does > not allow RAM to be remapped. But for ioremap_cache(), the existing kernel > mapping may be used. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Salter Looks good. Thanks. -- Catalin