drm_vm.c: many arches equate remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range()

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Thu Aug 30 03:56:20 PDT 2012


On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   a pedantic observation, you can do with it what you wish (i'm not a
> > list subscriber).  in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vm.c, we read (line 629):
> >
> > #if !defined(__arm__)
> >                 if (io_remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
> >                                        (map->offset + offset) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> >                                        vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start,
> >                                        vma->vm_page_prot))
> >                         return -EAGAIN;
> > #else
> >                 if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start,
> >                                         (map->offset + offset) >> PAGE_SHIFT,
> >                                         vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start,
> >                                         vma->vm_page_prot))
> >                         return -EAGAIN;
> > #endif
>
> This code goes down to:
>
> commit 4b7fb9b5746554d460e7bc986341d4b2db01e0b6
> Author: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse at codeaurora.org>
> Date:   Thu May 27 13:40:26 2010 -0600
>
>     drm: Add __arm defines to DRM
>
>     Add __arm defines to specify behavior specific for
>     an ARM processor.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jcrouse at codeaurora.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>
> Even at that time io_remap_pfn_range on arm was defined as:
>
> >
> > #define io_remap_pfn_range(vma,from,pfn,size,prot) \
> >                 remap_pfn_range(vma, from, pfn, size, prot)
> >
> > so it's not clear what the preprocessor test is for.  admittedly, it
> > should work, it just seems unnecessary.  and it makes the code more
> > confusing than it needs to be, but perhaps i've just misread
> > something.
>
> I agree that this shouldn't be necessary.

  for simplicity, i can submit a patch that just does a straight call
to remap_pfn_range(), unless someone can recognize something really
subtle happening here.

rday

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