Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] mm/ioremap: Consider IOREMAP space in generic ioremap

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Oct 12 2022 - 06:39:45 EST


On Wed, Oct 12, 2022, at 12:09 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Some architecture have a dedicated space for IOREMAP mappings.
>
> If so, use it in generic_ioremap_pro().
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

"Some" means exactly powerpc64, right? It looks like microblaze
and powerpc32 still share some of this code, but effectively
just use the vmalloc area once the slab allocator is up.

Is the special case still useful for powerpc64 or could this be
changed to do it the same as everything else?

Arnd