[PATCH 1/2] x86/io: add interface to reserve io memtype for a resource range. (v1.1)

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is anything on a driver to be able to tell when this is actually needed ?
>>> How will driver developers know? Can you add a bit of documentation to
>>> the API? If its transitive towards a secondary solution indicating so
>>> would help driver developers.
>>
>> I'll plug the io-mapping stuff again here, and more specifically the
>> userspace pte wrangling stuff we've added in 4.9 to i915_mm.c. Should
>> probably move that one to the core. That way io_mapping takes care of the
>> full reservartion, and allows you to on-demand kmap (for kernel) and write
>> ptes. All nicely fast and all, and for bonus, also nicely encapsulated.
>
> Yeah I think ideally we'd want to move towards that, however we don't tend
> to want to ioremap the full range even on 64-bit, which is what io-mapping does.

Hm, I thought on 64 we have linear mappings of all the io space
anyway, and they're essentially for free. Am I wrong and there's some
overhead here too?
-Daniel
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