Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] RISC-V: Fix ioremap_cache() and ioremap_wc() for systems with Svpbmt

[Anup Patel]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 9:20 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 05:14:30 PDT (-0700), Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 09:35:56AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> >> Sorry I missed this, I thought it was just part of the rest of this patch
> >> set.  That said, I'm not actually sure this is a critical fix: sure it's a
> >> performance problem, and if some driver is expecting ioremap_cache() to go
> >> fast then possibly a pretty big one, but the only Svpmbt hardware that
> >
> > More importantly nothing should be using ioremap_cache at all.  It is
> > an API that has long been deprecated in favor of memremap.
>
> There's a few uses of it, I just send along a patch to make it
> arch-specific and make the users depend on it.  That should let us stop
> adding this to ports just to get the drivers building.

I agree, ioremap_cache() should not be used by drivers.

I encountered this issue with the PMEM driver which uses devm_memremap()
which in-turn calls memremap() (kernel/iomem.c). The kernel memremap()
still expects arch-specific ioremap_xyz() functions/macros to implement various
MEMREMAP_xyz flags which is why we need these RISC-V specific ioremap_xyz().

An alternative way is to implement RISC-V specific arch_memremap_wb()
but this will still look similar to ioremap_cache() added by this patch. Also,
only 32bit ARM implements arch_memremap_wb() whereas all other archs
(ARM64, x86_64, etc) implement ioremap_xyz() functions/macros.

Regards,
Anup