[PATCH v2 0/3] fix memremap on ARM

[ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org (Ard Biesheuvel)]

On 3 March 2016 at 19:01, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 3 March 2016 at 18:55, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Ard Biesheuvel
> [..]
>>> Hmm, then what about Russell's suggestoin, if I'm not
>>> mischaracterizing, that ioremap_cache() move to its old
>>> ioremap_cached() name.  The latter has less cross-arch confusion.
>>
>> That would be appropriate as soon as we get rid of all the abuses of
>> ioremap_cache() (for some of which I am responsible myself, in the ARM
>> UEFI code). If we change it now, we're likely to break stuff.
>>
>
> Ok, sounds good.  I'll take care of the x86 ioremap_cache() removal
> and leave the eventual ARM conversion to you.


OK. But I'd still like Russell to indicate whether he agrees with all
of this, i.e., wire up memremap() to perform MT_MEMORY_RW mappings in
the vmalloc area of memory regions that may be potentially be covered
by highmem as well.