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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	"tony.luck@gmail.com" <tony.luck@gmail.com>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"gbeshers@sgi.com" <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: use ioremap_cache()
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:35:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D195AFF.9020106@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293506460.10593.43.camel@sli10-conroe>

On 12/27/2010 07:21 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> RCRB is a memory mapped io. In ICH, it's chipset configuration
> registers. this range can't be cached.
> I thought we should add a check like
> if page is E820_RAM or E820_ACPI then
> 	cached_map
> else
> 	uncached_map
> we have page_is_ram() API which just checks E820_RAM, I thought we can
> add a new API to check E820_ACPI.

For x86, that is handled by the MTRRs; for ia64, I would assume
ioremap() handles that somehow, otherwise it wouldn't be able to handle
existing drivers with ioremap() in them.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28  3:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14 22:09 [PATCH] - Mapping ACPI tables as CACHED Jack Steiner
2010-12-14 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-14 23:22   ` Len Brown
2010-12-15  0:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15  2:27   ` Jack Steiner
2010-12-15  4:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15  0:04 ` Len Brown
2010-12-15  1:18   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15  2:40     ` Len Brown
2010-12-15  2:41   ` Jack Steiner
2010-12-15  4:03     ` Len Brown
2010-12-15  4:35       ` Len Brown
2010-12-15  6:17         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15  6:17         ` Milton Miller
2010-12-15  6:29           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-15 16:46       ` Jack Steiner
2010-12-15 21:16         ` Len Brown
2010-12-15 22:18           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-17  2:54           ` Len Brown
2010-12-17  8:08             ` [PATCH] ACPI: use ioremap_cache() Len Brown
2010-12-27 19:42               ` Tony Luck
2010-12-27 20:12                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-28  3:21               ` Shaohua Li
2010-12-28  3:35                 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-12-28  5:02                   ` Shaohua Li
2010-12-28 20:12                     ` H. Peter Anvin

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