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arch: introduce memremap()
Existing users of ioremap_cache() are mapping memory that is known in advance to not have i/o side effects. These users are forced to cast away the __iomem annotation, or otherwise neglect to fix the sparse errors thrown when dereferencing pointers to this memory. Provide memremap() as a non __iomem annotated ioremap_*() in the case when ioremap is otherwise a pointer to cacheable memory. Empirically, ioremap_<cacheable-type>() call sites are seeking memory-like semantics (e.g. speculative reads, and prefetching permitted). memremap() is a break from the ioremap implementation pattern of adding a new memremap_<type>() for each mapping type and having silent compatibility fall backs. Instead, the implementation defines flags that are passed to the central memremap() and if a mapping type is not supported by an arch memremap returns NULL. We introduce a memremap prototype as a trivial wrapper of ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wt(). Later, once all ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wt() usage has been removed from drivers we teach archs to implement arch_memremap() with the ability to strictly enforce the mapping type. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by:Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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- arch/ia64/include/asm/io.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/ia64/include/asm/io.h
- arch/sh/include/asm/io.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/sh/include/asm/io.h
- arch/xtensa/include/asm/io.h 1 addition, 0 deletionsarch/xtensa/include/asm/io.h
- include/linux/io.h 9 additions, 0 deletionsinclude/linux/io.h
- kernel/Makefile 2 additions, 0 deletionskernel/Makefile
- kernel/memremap.c 98 additions, 0 deletionskernel/memremap.c
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