Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:32, Andi Kleen wrote:
> At least on x86-64/i386 the ioremap is actually cached unless a MTRR
> changes it, but it normally doesn't here. If one wants to force uncached
> access one has to use ioremap_uncached(). You're saying IA64 ioremap
> forces uncached access? That seems weird.

Right.  On ia64, ioremap() and ioremap_nocache() are the same.  You'd
have to ask David about the history behind this.

> > +	if (efi_enabled) {
> > +		if (efi_mem_attributes(base & EFI_MEMORY_WB)) {
> > +			iomem = 0;
> > +			buf = (u8 *) phys_to_virt(base);
> > +		} else if (efi_mem_attributes(base & EFI_MEMORY_UC))
> > +			buf = dmi_ioremap(base, len);
> > +		else
> > +			buf = NULL;
> 
> I would expect your ioremap to already do such a lookup. That is at least
> how MTRRs on i386/x86-64 work.  If it does not how about you fix
> ioremap()?

Yes, hiding this all inside ioremap() is probably a good idea.
It'll slow it down a lot, but I guess it's probably not used in
performance paths anyway.  Thanks for the advice.
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