Re: [PATCH 16/26] asm-generic: don't provide ioremap for CONFIG_MMU

Paul Walmsley
2019-08-17T21:15:06Z

On Sat, 17 Aug 2019, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> All MMU-enabled ports have a non-trivial ioremap and should thus provide
> the prototype for their implementation instead of providing a generic
> one unless a different symbol is not defined. Note that this only
> affects sparc32 nds32 as all others do provide their own version.
>
> Also update the kerneldoc comments in asm-generic/io.h to explain the
> situation around the default ioremap* implementations correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
> arch/nds32/include/asm/io.h | 2 ++
> arch/sparc/include/asm/io_32.h | 1 +
> include/asm-generic/io.h | 29 ++++++++---------------------
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>

[ ... ]

> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/io.h b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> index a98ed6325727..6a5edc23afe2 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/io.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/io.h
> @@ -922,28 +922,16 @@ static inline void *phys_to_virt(unsigned long address)
> /**
> * DOC: ioremap() and ioremap_*() variants
> *
> - * If you have an IOMMU your architecture is expected to have both ioremap()
> - * and iounmap() implemented otherwise the asm-generic helpers will provide a
> - * direct mapping.
> + * Architectures with an MMU are expected to provide ioremap() and iounmap()
> + * themselves. For NOMMU architectures we provide a default nop-op
> + * implementation that expect that the physical address used for MMIO are
> + * already marked as uncached, and can be used as kernel virtual addresses.
> *
> - * There are ioremap_*() call variants, if you have no IOMMU we naturally will
> - * default to direct mapping for all of them, you can override these defaults.
> - * If you have an IOMMU you are highly encouraged to provide your own
> - * ioremap variant implementation as there currently is no safe architecture
> - * agnostic default. To avoid possible improper behaviour default asm-generic
> - * ioremap_*() variants all return NULL when an IOMMU is available. If you've
> - * defined your own ioremap_*() variant you must then declare your own
> - * ioremap_*() variant as defined to itself to avoid the default NULL return.
> + * ioremap_wc() and ioremap_wt() can provide more relaxed caching attributes
> + * for specific drivers if the architecture choses to implement them. If they
^^^ chooses

- Paul