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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	msalter@redhat.com, dyoung@redhat.com, riel@redhat.com,
	peterz@infradead.org, mgorman@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Optimize resource lookups for ioremap
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:21:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140827172128.93feef68.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53FE6FAA.6010806@sgi.com>

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 16:54:18 -0700 Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> wrote:

> > If we're still at 1+ hours then little bodges like this are nowhere
> > near sufficient and sterner stuff will be needed.
> > 
> > Do we actually need the test?  My googling turns up zero instances of
> > anyone reporting the "ioremap on RAM pfn" warning.
> 
> We get them more than we like, mostly from 3rd party vendors, and
> esp. those that merely port their windows drivers to linux.

Dang.  So wrapping the check in CONFIG_DEBUG_VM would be problematic?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-27 22:59 [PATCH 0/2] x86: Speed up ioremap operations Mike Travis
2014-08-27 22:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Optimize resource lookups for ioremap Mike Travis
2014-08-27 23:05   ` Andrew Morton
2014-08-27 23:09     ` Mike Travis
2014-08-27 23:18       ` Andrew Morton
2014-08-27 23:25         ` Mike Travis
2014-08-27 23:37           ` Andrew Morton
2014-08-27 23:54             ` Mike Travis
2014-08-28  0:21               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-08-27 22:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86: Use optimized ioresource lookup in ioremap function Mike Travis
2014-08-27 23:06 ` [PATCH 0/2] x86: Speed up ioremap operations Andrew Morton
2014-08-27 23:15   ` Mike Travis
2014-08-27 23:20     ` Andrew Morton
2014-08-27 23:30       ` Mike Travis
2014-08-28  6:48   ` Ingo Molnar
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-08-29 19:16 Mike Travis
2014-08-29 19:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Optimize resource lookups for ioremap Mike Travis
2014-08-29 19:53 [PATCH 0/2] x86: Speed up ioremap operations Mike Travis
2014-08-29 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86: Optimize resource lookups for ioremap Mike Travis

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