Re: [PATCH v5 RESEND 14/17] mm/ioremap: Consider IOREMAP space in generic ioremap

From: Baoquan He
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 23:32:05 EST


On 05/16/23 at 11:44pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 11:41:26PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I think this would be cleaner if we'd just always use
> > __get_vm_area_caller and at the top of the file add a:
> >
> > #ifndef IOREMAP_START
> > #define IOREMAP_START VMALLOC_START
> > #define IOREMAP_END VMALLOC_END
> > #endif
> >
> > Together with a little comment that ioremap often, but not always
> > uses the generic vmalloc area.
>
> .. and with that we can also simply is_ioremap_addr by moving it
> to ioremap.c and making it always operate on the IOREMAP constants.

Great idea too, will do. Put this into a separate patch?