Re: Enhancing semantics with memremap() - aliasing with memremap()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 31 2016 - 12:58:44 EST


On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:36:42PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Is it a good time for that now? I would hope identifying proper
> aliasing uses for memremap() might be a bit easier now than for
> ioremap() given its not used as widely. It may be an easier target to
> also write some grammar rules for it as well.

So you want an explicit opt-in flag to allow aliasing? Sounds fine to
me.