From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-vc0-f177.google.com (mail-vc0-f177.google.com [209.85.220.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F386B0036 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 12:06:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-vc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id if17so2703018vcb.36 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-vc0-x231.google.com (mail-vc0-x231.google.com [2607:f8b0:400c:c03::231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m2si401326vcx.73.2014.05.14.09.06.58 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 14 May 2014 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-vc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id if17so2666731vcb.8 for ; Wed, 14 May 2014 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1400055532-13134-2-git-send-email-superlibj8301@gmail.com> References: <1400055532-13134-1-git-send-email-superlibj8301@gmail.com> <1400055532-13134-2-git-send-email-superlibj8301@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 11:06:57 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Add IO mapping space reused interface support. From: Rob Herring Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Richard Lee Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Russell King - ARM Linux , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Laura Abbott , Andrew Morton , d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com, zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com, liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Nicolas Pitre Adding Nico... On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:18 AM, Richard Lee wrote: > For the IO mapping, the same physical address space maybe > mapped more than one time, for example, in some SoCs: > - 0x20001000 ~ 0x20001400 --> 1KB for Dev1 > - 0x20001400 ~ 0x20001800 --> 1KB for Dev2 > and the page size is 4KB. > > Then both Dev1 and Dev2 will do ioremap operations, and the IO > vmalloc area's virtual address will be aligned down to 4KB, and > the size will be aligned up to 4KB. That's to say, only one > 4KB size's vmalloc area could contain Dev1 and Dev2 IO mapping area > at the same time. > > For this case, we can ioremap only one time, and the later ioremap > operation will just return the exist vmalloc area. We already have similar reuse tracking for the static mappings on ARM. I'm wondering if either that can be reused for ioremap as well or this can replace the static mapping tracking. It seems silly to have 2 lists to search for finding an existing mapping. But there is a fundamental problem with your approach. You do not and cannot check the memory type of the mapping. If you look at the static mapping code, it only reuses mappings if the memory type match. While having aliases with different memory types is bad on ARMv6+, I assume there are some cases that do that given the static mapping code handles that case. We would at least want to detect and warn if we didn't want to allow different attributes rather than just return a mapping with whatever attributes the first mapping used. Rob -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org