[PATCH 0 of 2] MMIO copy patches, the next generation

["Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>]

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After another round of review, here is a revised set of MMIO copy patches.

These have switched the name of the copy routine to __iowrite32_copy,
to match the naming convention in include/asm-generic/iomap.h, and at
Andi's request.  The name is double-underscored to make it clear that
the routine does not guarantee the order of writes or perform a memory
barrier; the kernel doc also explicitly states this.

These define the generic __iowrite32_copy as a weak symbol, which
arches are free to override.  We provide a specialised implementation
for x86_64.  In a change from prior versions of these patches, the x86_64
version no longer makes any assumptions about the bus breaking up 64-bit
transactions, and uses 32-bit copies directly.

We also introduce include/linux/io.h, which is tiny now, but a candidate
for later cleanups of all the per-arch asm-*/{io,iomap}.h files.

These patches should apply cleanly against current -git, and have been
tested on i386 and x86_64.

The patch series is as follows:

iomap_copy.patch
  Introduce the generic MMIO 32-bit copy routine.

x86_64-iomap_copy.patch
  Add a faster __iowrite32_copy routine to x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>